Read the following excerpt from Sonnet 97, "How like a winter hath my absence been," by William Shakespeare:
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness every where!
1. William Shakespeare, How like a winter hath my absence been on Shakespeare's sosee
Sonnets, ed. William J. Rolfe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883), 95.
Which of the following is the most likely explanation for how the structure of
the poem contributes to its meaning?
A. The repetition of "what" within the poem's lyric structure
emphasizes all the different ways that the speaker's feelings are
like winter.
B. The rhyming of "been" with "seen" shows that the speaker has
forgotten about his true love.
C. The phrase "dark days" is an element of epic structure that
represents both the winter's lack of sunlight and the speaker's
gloomy mood.
D. The epic structure of the comparison between winter and the
speaker's relationship suggests that his love is cold and distant,
much like the nation.

Instructions: the following argument argues for advertising to children. read the argument and answer the question that follows: topic and question advertising: should companies be allowed to advertise to children? ineffective argument i think that advertising to children is necessary. how else will we know what we can buy? i think that children are not aware of the products that are available. most children don’t own cars and can’t drive to stores to look around. the only way we know what we can buy is by seeing advertisements on tv. my friend really likes advertisements, too. he said, "how will we know what to buy if we don’t see advertisements? " seriously, children are consumers, too. we know what we like and we ask our parents to buy these products for us. i know that i like certain cereals, but how would i know that if i did not see advertisements? i love those commercials! kids are people, too. why is the argument ineffective? in a paragraph of 7–10 complete sentences, explain why the following parts of the argument are ineffective, and how they can be improved: claim support conclusion clincher point of view transitions