1. PART A: Which TWO of the following best identify the central ideas of this text? A. Mao was an evil dictator because he planned to kill 45 million Chinese people.

B. Mao was an ambitious leader who wanted to help China, but his philosophy was ignored when young people took over

C. Mao's policies hurt China's economy, stripped individual freedoms, and cost millions of lives.

D. Dictatorship can be good when it leads to the redistribution of wealth and leads to greater social equality.

E. In order to move forward, one must destroy the old, including old culture, old beliefs, and old government.

F. When people follow the status quo or a charismatic leader, dangerous consequences and violence can arise.​

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.

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