Question

10.
Read the poem, and then choose the correct answer to the question below.
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18)
by William Shakespeare

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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.

Which line is NOT an enjambment?


Line 8

Line 1

Line 10

Line 6
11.
Choose the best answer.

Which of these is an example of indirect characterization?

"It was a fine, mild day, and a gentle breeze fanned their faces."

"As Monsieur Morissot, watchmaker by profession and idler for the nonce, was strolling along the boulevard on bright January morning, his hands in his trouser pockets and stomach empty, he suddenly came face to face with an acquaintance - Monsieur Sauvage, a fishing chum."

"The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy."

"Ivan Dmitritch imagined his wife in the train with a multitude of parcels, baskets, and bags; she would be sighing over something, complaining that the train made her head ache, that she had spent so much money. . . . "

Answer 1

10. Line 1. (It is end-stopped — a complete sentence/question — so it is not an enjambment.)

11. The fourth option ("Ivan Dmitritch imagined his wife...") — this is indirect characterization because it shows the wife's traits through imagined actions and speech rather than stating them outright.