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Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Reread the sonnet a third time and respond to the Key Ideas and Details questions on the next pages. Write your responses to each question and highlight or underline the textual evidence that supports your answers.
Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare
1 Let me not to the marriage of true minds key ideas and deTails
Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
5 O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
10 Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
According to Shakespeare, how does a false love operate? In other words, when “love is not love,” what happens? Paraphrase his language using your own words.
key ideas and deTails
Why is love superior to Time? Use language from the text to support your answer.
key ideas and deTails
Paraphrase the final two lines of the sonnet.
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