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Question 10 • SY 25-26_NJ-English Language Arts 10_Manfra MP2

Which quotation from a Shakespearean sonnet is a couplet?

Answer

“And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, / As any she belied with false compare.”

“Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”

“Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey, / If Time have any wrinkle graven there; / If any, be a satire to decay, / And make Time's spoils despised every where.”

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red, than her lips red: / If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; / If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.”

Explanation

A couplet is a pair of consecutive lines that rhyme. In choice A, the two lines end with “rare” and “compare,” which rhyme and form the closing couplet of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. The other choices either include more than two lines or do not present a rhyming pair of consecutive lines.

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