DIctation 6 EES

DIctation 6 EES

7th Grade

17 Qs

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DIctation 6 EES

DIctation 6 EES

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English

7th Grade

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1.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Temperate as used in line 2 means that the speaker's beloved is not susceptible to extremes. The word often carries moral undertones and is closely related to the word "temperance," which suggests moderation and self-control.

2.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Lease in line 4 means, essentially, allotted time. Though the word often refers to a legal contract—for example, an agreement to rent an apartment—Shakespeare uses it here to refer simply to a limited span of time.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Complexion refers to the natural appearance of the skin, especially the skin of the face. In the poem, the speaker personifies the sun, giving it skin, in order to compare it to the young man's own complexion.

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30 sec • 1 pt

One often uses the word "fair" when talking about whether something is just or unjust: one might say, for instance, that someone's prison sentence was fair or unfair. Shakespeare uses the word in a different sense. Here it refers to physical beauty. In the Renaissance, to call a man fair was to suggest that he was exceptionally beautiful.

5.

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"Untrimm'd" means stripped of ornament or plain.

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To own or control something. The word ricochets against the word "lease" in line four. In contrast to the beauty that summer merely rents, the young man's beauty is his property, something he controls forever.

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The word is a contraction of the verb "own," meaning to possess something. It works together with the word "possession" earlier in the line to give the strong sense that the young man's beauty is his property, permanently.

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