They couldn’t do enough to show how much they loved and respected her.
Answer:
B - marks made by a person's foot
Explanation:
A - this has nothing to do with the foot part of footprints
B - this makes sense - you leave footprints behind you as you walk on sand
C - again, nothing to do with the foot part of footprints
D - same reason as A and C
E - that is not even a definition
Answer:
<u>The distinct quality that the speaker attributes to his beloved's face is that she can conceal her moods completely.</u>
Explanation:
In the excerpt from William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 93" the narrator is mentioning how his beloved's face has the capacity of showing him that she loves him when he knows that she does not longer do so. He is expressing how he is not able to tell exactly what the true mood of his beloved is as she is great at concealing her mood and emotions completely from her facial expressions.
Answer:
If your options are:
A. The poem uses variations of meter to affect rhyme.
B. The poem’s sentences flow across stanzas.
C. The poem’s stanzas have varying lengths.
D. The poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.
Then the answer is D.
Explanation:
The nontraditional syntax is best shown in the use of enjambment - interrupting the thought and syntactic structure in the middle and moving the rest to the next line. For example: "and older than the // flow of human blood (...)"
Here, the definite article "the" has been separated from the noun "flow", which means the phrase is visually broken in half.
- A isn't true because this poem conveys its meaning through rhythm and not rhyme. There are virtually no rhymes here and the syntax (sentence structure) is disrupted, invoking the sound of a river flowing in irregular but consistent waves.
- B isn't true because the sentences do flow across lines but not across stanzas.
- The stanzas do have varying lengths. But even though this element was pretty rare prior to the 20th century, it is not exclusive to modernist poetry. That's why C isn't true either.
