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Paraphrasing Practice 1

Quiz by Cassidy Burton

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  • Q1
    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?
    A loan that you enter into willingly and that brings you happiness is not wrong
    Then you would beat death
    If you had ten children, you would be ten times happier than you are
    Don't be stubborn, because you're too beautiful to let your beauty die with your own body.
    120s
  • Q2
    "Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, / In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:" What is the best paraphrase?
    Don't completely lose the youth within you before you bear a child
    Because you see this, your love is made stronger, to love well that which you must soon leave
    When I notice how people grow just as plants do
    Then when I happen to look upon you, you are at your most beautiful
    120s
  • Q3
    "When I do count the clock that tells the time, / And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;" What is the best paraphrase?
    Everything beautiful dies as quickly as new beauty emerges
    I question your beauty, because you, too, will age and die with time
    When you're old, you will regain your youth when you look at your own child
    When I watch time pass and night fall
    120s
  • Q4
    "Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, / Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:" What is the BEST paraphrase?
    I think she is just as extraordinary as any woman that may be described with false comparisons.
    The effect your beauty once had would be completely forgotten
    Though your outward appearance changes, the essence (inside) of what you are remains beautiful.
    If you don't have children, you destroy your beauty when you die.
    120s
  • Q5
    "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: / Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:"
    I myself make the mistake of smoothing over your mistake enough to justify even worse sins.
    Don't feel guilty anymore about what you've done, since all beautiful things have faults.
    It also doesn't help me that you're ashamed, since I have still lost something.
    Your repentance does not heal my burden.
    120s
  • Q6
    "Life...is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." What is the best paraphrase?
    Life has no meaning.
    Life should be enjoyed because it doesn't last long.
    Life is best lived in devotion to God.
    People should respect all forms of life, even those who are less intelligent.
    120s
  • Q7
    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?
    She will fall out of line
    People will know her because of her beauty
    She will die and go to heaven
    People will read about her in his poem
    120s
  • Q8
    What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?
    Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love
    Strong winds cannot touch the flowers
    strong winds destroy spring flowers
    120s
  • Q9
    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...
    nature
    his heartbeat
    spring day
    summer's day
    120s
  • Q10
    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!)
    personification
    alliteration
    hyperbole
    metaphor
    120s
  • Q11
    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
    moon
    the woman's eye
    sky
    sun
    120s

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