SAT Literature: Other Content Analysis Questions

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1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 11 Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, 12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; 13 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Within his or her poetry, the speaker claims that his or her beloved will remain __________.

alive and fair enlivened by the returning summer alive, yet faded alive fair

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 2 I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 3 My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 4 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 5 I love thee to the level of everyday"s 6 Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 7 I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 8 I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 9 I love thee with the passion put to use 10 In my old griefs, and with my childhood"s faith. 11 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 12 With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, 13 Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, 14 I shall but love thee better after death. What does the speaker indicate is more powerful than his or her love?

God childhood's faith old griefs tears lost saints

self-aggrandizement chastity humility arrogance innocence

Batter my heart (Holy Sonnet 14) 1 Batter my heart, three-person"d God; for you 2 As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; 3 That I may rise, and stand, o"erthrow me, and bend 4 Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. 5 I, like an usurp"d town, to another due, 6 Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. 7 Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, 8 But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. 9 Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, 10 But am betroth"d unto your enemy; 11 Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, 12 Take me to you, imprison me, for I, 13 Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, 14 Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. The metaphysical conceit of the "usurp"d town" (line 5) turns at line 9 to .

the metaphor of an imprisoned criminal the metaphor of the knot the metaphor of an already engaged lover the metaphor of the chaste lover the metaphor of the

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This, even Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If She inspire, and He approve my lays. … Sol thro’ white curtains shot a tim’rous ray, And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day. Now lapdogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers just at twelve awake: Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock’d the ground, And the press’d watch return’d a silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow prest, Her guardian Sylph prolong’d the balmy rest. What is Belinda doing at the end of the second stanza?

Acting as the object of someone else’s love Just waking up Ringing someone’s doorbell Pining over an unrequited love Still sleeping

Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. What does God "father" in line 10?

Dappled things All trades Nature Change None of the other answers

1 Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense 2 Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; 3 Call Imperfection what thou fancy"st such, 4 Say, here he gives too little, there too much; 5 Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, 6 Yet cry, If Man"s unhappy, God"s unjust; 7 If Man alone engross not Heav"n"s high care, 8 Alone made perfect here, immortal there: 9 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, 10 Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD! 11 In Pride, in reasoning Pride, our error lies; 12 All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. 13 Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 14 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. 15 Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, 16 Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel; 17 And who but wishes to invert the laws 18 Of ORDER, sins against th" Eternal Cause. (1734) According to the speaker, what is man’s greatest sin?

Destruction of God's creatures Attempting to be immortal Pride Rebellion Attempting to be perfect

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
1 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 2 I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 3 My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 4 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 5 I love thee to the level of everyday"s 6 Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 7 I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 8 I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 9 I love thee with the passion put to use 10 In my old griefs, and with my childhood"s faith. 11 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 12 With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, 13 Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, 14 I shall but love thee better after death.

Were this poem to have a topic sentence, it would very probably be which line?

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." (line 1)

"I shall but love thee better after death." (line 14)

"I love thee with the breath,/Smiles, tears, of all my life!" (lines 12-13)

"I love thee with a love I seemed to lose" (line 11)

"I love thee with the passion put to use/In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith." (lines 9-10)

1    "So careful of the type?" but no. 
2    From scarped cliff and quarried stone 
3    She cries, `A thousand types are gone: 
4    I care for nothing, all shall go.   

5   "Thou makest thine appeal to me: 
6    I bring to life, I bring to death: 
7    The spirit does but mean the breath: 
8    I know no more." And he, shall he,   

9    Man, her last work, who seem"d so fair, 
10 Such splendid purpose in his eyes, 
11 Who roll"d the psalm to wintry skies, 
12 Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,   

13 Who trusted God was love indeed 
14 And love Creation"s final law— 
15 Tho" Nature, red in tooth and claw 
16 With ravine, shriek"d against his creed—   

17 Who loved, who suffer"d countless ills, 
18 Who battled for the True, the Just, 
19 Be blown about the desert dust, 
20 Or seal"d within the iron hills?   

21 No more? A monster then, a dream, 
22 A discord. Dragons of the prime, 
23 That tare each other in their slime, 
24 Were mellow music match"d with him.   

25 O life as futile, then, as frail! 
26 O for thy voice to soothe and bless! 
27 What hope of answer, or redress? 
28 Behind the veil, behind the veil.
(1849)

The speaker questions if __________ will “be blown about the desert dust/ Or seal’d within the iron hills?” (lines 19-20).