"A Validiction: Forbidding Mourning" /"Death, be not proud"

The use of conceits is especially characteristic of what kind of poetry?

• lyric

• Petrachan

• Elizabethian

• Metaphysical

• Shakespearean

Replacing virtuous with which word would make the following sentence mean the opposite? She is very well-behaved and her family members describe her as virtuous.

• good

• brave

• clever

• immoral

• intelligent

Why does the speaker in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" forbid mourning?

• The speaker has the authority to issue orders like this one.

• Mourning would be false because the deceased was not loved

• Sadness in unwarranted because the love between the speaker and his wife has no end.

• The use of mourning is a play on words; the speaker is saying there should be no morning or future without him.

• He wants her to mourn so he thinks if he tells her not to do something, she will do it.

What does the line "Thy firmness makes my circle just" from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" mean?

• His wife is faithful but he is not

• He is ready to die because he has done everything

• The couple complements and completes one another

• His wife's fidelity is only fair, given her other behaviors

• His wife is stern, so he is allowed to be lenient and flexible

What is the conceit in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

• saying the poem is a valediction

• saying that love makes one complete

• describing parts of the body as "care less"

• the lovers being compared to parts of a compass

• earthquakes being compared to celestial movements