Question 1

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair / To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir."

Which is the best paraphrasing?

Accepted Answer

Don't be stubborn, because you're too beautiful to let your beauty die with your own body.

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A loan that you enter into willingly and that brings you happiness is not wrong

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Then you would beat death

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If you had ten children, you would be ten times happier than you are

Question 2

"Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, / In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:" What is the best paraphrase?

Accepted Answer

Don't completely lose the youth within you before you bear a child

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Because you see this, your love is made stronger, to love well that which you must soon leave

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When I notice how people grow just as plants do

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Then when I happen to look upon you, you are at your most beautiful

Question 3

"When I do count the clock that tells the time, / And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;" What is the best paraphrase?

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When I watch time pass and night fall

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Everything beautiful dies as quickly as new beauty emerges

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I question your beauty, because you, too, will age and die with time

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When you're old, you will regain your youth when you look at your own child

Question 4

"Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, / Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:" What is the BEST paraphrase?

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The effect your beauty once had would be completely forgotten

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I think she is just as extraordinary as any woman that may be described with false comparisons.

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Though your outward appearance changes, the essence (inside) of what you are remains beautiful.

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If you don't have children, you destroy your beauty when you die.

Question 5

"No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: / Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:"

Accepted Answer

Don't feel guilty anymore about what you've done, since all beautiful things have faults.

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I myself make the mistake of smoothing over your mistake enough to justify even worse sins.

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It also doesn't help me that you're ashamed, since I have still lost something.

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Your repentance does not heal my burden.

Question 6

"Life...is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." What is the best paraphrase?

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Life has no meaning.

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Life should be enjoyed because it doesn't last long.

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Life is best lived in devotion to God.

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People should respect all forms of life, even those who are less intelligent.

Question 7

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                          
     Shakespeare says his mistress will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

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People will read about her in his poem

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She will fall out of line

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People will know her because of her beauty

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She will die and go to heaven

Question 8

What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

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strong winds destroy spring flowers

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Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love

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Strong winds cannot touch the flowers

Question 9

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                                                                    
          Shakespeare's sonnet 18 compares a girl to...

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summer's day

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nature

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his heartbeat

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spring day

Question 10

What poetic device is used in the following line of Sonnet 18: "Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade" (Hint: Death is bragging!)

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personification

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alliteration

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hyperbole

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metaphor

Question 11

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                                                                                                
              In Sonnet 18, the "eye of heaven" refers to the

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sun

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moon

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the woman's eye

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sky

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