Question

select the correct answer from each drop - down menu. read this sonnet, and then complete the sentences that follow. sonnet 4 by edmund spenser be not dismayed that her unmoved mind doth still persist in her rebellious pride: and love not like to lusts of baser kind, the harder won, the firmer will abide. the durefull oak, whose sap is not yet dried, is long ere it conceive the kindling fire; but when it once doth burn, it doth divide, great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire. so hard it is to kindle new desire, in gentle breast that shall endure for ever: deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire with chaste affects, that naught but death can sever. then think not long in taking little pain, to knit the knot, that ever shall remain. the sonnet is written in the form. the rhyme scheme is. the main idea of the poem is. the poet has used the of burning an oak to emphasize. he also uses the metaphor to emphasize the depth of love.

Explanation:

A metaphor directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as". In the sonnet, the burning of an oak is used as a metaphor to convey ideas about love and the effort required to win it. It's not a simile (which uses "like" or "as") or personification (giving human - like qualities to non - human things).

Answer:

metaphor