Question #6430568Single Choice

AP English Literatur

Question

Read the following lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18:

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:

What is the effect of the rhetorical question in the first line?

Options

It creates a sense of uncertainty and doubt.

It engages the reader and introduces the central theme of comparison.

It introduces a sense of despair and defeat.

It disrupts the flow and creates tension within the poem.

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