Question

Read the following excerpt from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73" and answer the question.

Answer 1

 I would say the answer is B.

Answer 2

B.Winter limbs are like an empty choir, bare and silent.

The excerpt from "Sonnet 73" does not have a positive connotation. There is nothing to indicate that things are positive, happy, alive, or bright. Therefore, options A and C are not valid choices. The question is about the central metaphors of the lines which means that the answer should be about the thing that is the focus of the lines. What is the focus? The yellow leaves or the winter limbs. The goal of describing the yellow leaves is to show how few there are on the winter limbs. The excerpt then goes on to describe the limbs shaking and comparing them to an empty choir because the birds have all flown south for winter.