"Lying is a cooperative act. A lie has no power by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie."
Answer:
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; ←→ The speaker personifies and diminishes the power of death.
She is all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. ←→ The beloved is like the entire world to the lover.
If they be two, they are two so As stiffe twin compasses are two, Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other doe.<---> The lover and his beloved are described as separate but connected, like a drawing tool.
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence Wherein could this flea guilty be, ←→ The speaker chides his beloved for killing the flea
"third"
President Reagan signed the proclamation officially declaring that the 3rd Monday of the first month, January, be the MLK Jr. Day.
The answer is the third one.
This is a simile! Because it is comparing two things using like or as
