When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Which does the poet portray as important in the sonnet?
A. children
B. praise
C. beauty
D. treasure
Answer:
the answer is C. beauty
A.
infinitive
B.
participle
C.
infinitive phrase
D.
participial phrase
He tells a series of fictional stories.
B.
He composes a rhyming narrative poem.
C.
He describes an autobiographical incident.
D.
He cites a collection of widely known historical facts.
The correct answer is C. John Greenleaf Whittier as an adult writes something that happened to him as a child and points out what the experience taught him, thereby emphasizing the importance of the events of the story. The author wishes to give his readers some kind of valuable advice or instruction.