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Do you think the last two lines make up for the rest of the things the speaker says about
his mistress? Would you think it was charming if someone wrote this poem about
you?
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2.
Does Shakespeare make a fair point? Do some love poems take these
comparisons too far? Or this exactly the place for fancy phrases?
3.
Have you ever tried to write someone a love poem? Did you actually send it? How did
it go over?
In
4 Shakespeare wrote this poem about 400 years ago. Does it feel like an old poem?
what ways? If you changed the language a little, could this poem have been written
today? Why or why not?
5.
Do you feel like the speaker is describing a specific person? If so, what makes it
seem that way? If not, why not?
6. Find one example of a simile in the sonnet. What two things are being compared?

According to the author, what effect do the mounds mostly have on current society

1. fallacy of logos "my favorite teacher said that we should vote for mr. martinez, so i believe he is the best." 2. fallacy of ethos "if we don't pass this environmental protection bill now, the world will probably end soon." 3. fallacy of pathos "the last time it rained, our local sports team won. it is raining today, so they will win tonight."

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir