Preparing to memorize
which features of this sonnet will you memorize it?
check all that apply.
reread the first four lines of "sonnet 18" two or three
times out loud
shall i compare thee to a summer's day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summer's lease hath all too short a date
- "sonnet 18,"
william shakespeare
there are ten syllables in each line.
the first four lines repeat.
every other line rhymes.
every other line has the same first word.
the four lines are a comparison between a person
and the features of summer.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”