Shakespeare's Sonnets
Which response accurately explains the effect of the personification of death?
Read the lines from the sonnet “Death Be Not Proud.”
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, …
Which response accurately explains the effect of the personification of death?
A. Death is used as a metaphor for an individual person in the speaker’s life who has taken control over the speaker’s freedom.
B. The speaker creates a connection between a general figure of death and the tragedies of his past, which allows him to tell his personal history.
C. Death is presented as a person in order to help readers understand that dying is an immediate risk if they make dangerous choices.
D. The speaker is able to talk to death directly, which allows him to make a philosophical argument about the power of death.
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