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11. What does the speaker mean in Sonnet 116 in these final lines?
If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love.
What I've said is not a mistake because I am a writer and men have fallen in love.
I may be mistaken in what I've said, but I am still a writer and men still fall in love.
You don't have to believe me, but you must believe I am a writer and that men fall in love.
12. What is the tone of Sonnet 130?
(1 point)
hopeful and happy
anxious and sad
serious and angry
humorous and realistic
13. What does the speaker do in each quatrain of Sonnet 130?
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He praises his beloved.
He makes fun of his beloved.
He speaks to his beloved.
He laments the loss of his beloved.
14. Why does the nymph reject the shepherd in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
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Time will pass and the joys of youth will fade.
She has no desire to live in the country.
She loves another and will not leave him.
She grew tired of waiting and married another.
15. What is the speaker's attitude toward love and youth in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
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Youth never experiences true love.
Youth is the only time for love.
Love and youth are endless.
Love and youth are brief.
16. What does the speaker mean in this line from “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
But could youth last and love still breed . . .
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As people get older, love fades.
Young people do not know the meaning of love.
Love will outlast time.
Only young people are able to love completely.
Vocabulary and Grammar
17. Which word best completes this sentence?
The poet had worked all night to complete the sonnet, but at dawn it remained unfinished. Defeated, his spirit ____ at his desk.
(1 point)
deigned
devised
assayed
languished
18. Which word in this sentence should be capitalized?
In their amazement like narcissus vain / Whose eyes him starved: so plenty makes me poor.
(1 point)
Amazement
Narcissus
Eyes
Plenty
19. What is a participle?
(1 point)
a verb form that usually ends in -ment
a verb form that usually ends in -ed or -ing
a noun form that is
If this be error, and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
(1 point)
If you think I am mistaken in this, then you also won't believe that I am a writer or that men fall in love.
What I've said is not a mistake because I am a writer and men have fallen in love.
I may be mistaken in what I've said, but I am still a writer and men still fall in love.
You don't have to believe me, but you must believe I am a writer and that men fall in love.
12. What is the tone of Sonnet 130?
(1 point)
hopeful and happy
anxious and sad
serious and angry
humorous and realistic
13. What does the speaker do in each quatrain of Sonnet 130?
(1 point)
He praises his beloved.
He makes fun of his beloved.
He speaks to his beloved.
He laments the loss of his beloved.
14. Why does the nymph reject the shepherd in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
(1 point)
Time will pass and the joys of youth will fade.
She has no desire to live in the country.
She loves another and will not leave him.
She grew tired of waiting and married another.
15. What is the speaker's attitude toward love and youth in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
(1 point)
Youth never experiences true love.
Youth is the only time for love.
Love and youth are endless.
Love and youth are brief.
16. What does the speaker mean in this line from “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”?
But could youth last and love still breed . . .
(1 point)
As people get older, love fades.
Young people do not know the meaning of love.
Love will outlast time.
Only young people are able to love completely.
Vocabulary and Grammar
17. Which word best completes this sentence?
The poet had worked all night to complete the sonnet, but at dawn it remained unfinished. Defeated, his spirit ____ at his desk.
(1 point)
deigned
devised
assayed
languished
18. Which word in this sentence should be capitalized?
In their amazement like narcissus vain / Whose eyes him starved: so plenty makes me poor.
(1 point)
Amazement
Narcissus
Eyes
Plenty
19. What is a participle?
(1 point)
a verb form that usually ends in -ment
a verb form that usually ends in -ed or -ing
a noun form that is