SONNET 29

What is most likely the poet’s reason for choosing the rhyme scheme, which established throughout the poem, suddenly changes just before the end?

• A. It reflects his own change from negativity to positivity.

• B. It establishes three stanzas as the verse, and the last two lines as the chorus, of a song.

• C. To contrast and emphasize the statement in the last two lines.

• D. To reinforce at the end the grim mood established in the beginning.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What do the following lines mostly reveal about the narrator?

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,

Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

• A. He enjoys neither friendship nor confidence in his own abilities.

• B. He is somebody who cries a lot.

• C. He hates himself for being such a loser.

• D. He has a lot of friends whose company he enjoys.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following best explains the narrator’s outlook on his own life?

• A. His love redeems all other dissatisfactions.

• B. His life is drained of meaning by his unwilling atheism.

• C. He wants to be rich like his friends.

• D. Religion is his only refuge in a world of sorrows.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following lines best support the answer to Question 3?

• A. “With what I most enjoy contented least;

  Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,”

• B. “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

  I all alone beweep my outcast state,”

• C. “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings,

  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”

• D. “Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

  Like to the lark at break of day arising

  From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;”

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

Order the following as they occur in the poem.

The narrator is generally miserable and disgraced

The narrator envies other men

The narrator’s state starts improving from sullen to singing

The narrator wouldn’t exchange his once-despised state for that of a king

• FIRST

• SECOND

• THIRD

• FOURTH

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

Order the following as they occur in the poem.

The narrator is generally miserable and disgraced

The narrator envies other men

The narrator’s state starts improving from sullen to singing

The narrator wouldn’t exchange his once-despised state for that of a king

• FIRST

• SECOND

• THIRD

• FOURTH

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Order the following as they occur in the poem.

The narrator is generally miserable and disgraced

The narrator envies other men

The narrator’s state starts improving from sullen to singing

The narrator wouldn’t exchange his once-despised state for that of a king

• FIRST

• SECOND

• THIRD

• FOURTH

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Order the following as they occur in the poem.

The narrator is generally miserable and disgraced

The narrator envies other men

The narrator’s state starts improving from sullen to singing

The narrator wouldn’t exchange his once-despised state for that of a king

• FIRST

• SECOND

• THIRD

• FOURTH

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4