Read this excerpt from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 93 and fill in the blanks in the paragraph.
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be, Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell. How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!
The tone of the poem is (romantic, bitter, sarcastic) .
The poetic speaker is praising denouncing the lady addressed.
He uses the (parallelism, simile, metaphor) of Eve’s apple, which symbolizes the ( deception, sorrow) concealed in attractive things.
The poet contrasts the lady's beauty and her (virtue symbolism) to show that her beauty does not reveal her inner (virtue, corruption) .
Answer:
1. biitter
2. denouncing
3. simile
4. deception
5. virtue
6. corruption
Explanation:
