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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which structural pattern defines the Shakespearean sonnet?
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Explanation:
• The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a final couplet.
• Its usual rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
• The quatrains commonly develop related aspects of an argument or situation.
• The concluding couplet often offers a summary, reversal, qualification or epigrammatic closure.
• Its usual rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
• The quatrains commonly develop related aspects of an argument or situation.
• The concluding couplet often offers a summary, reversal, qualification or epigrammatic closure.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What is the usual rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
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Explanation:
• The standard Shakespearean rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
• Each quatrain has its own pair of alternating rhymes.
• The final rhyming couplet gives the form a strong sense of closure.
• The other schemes correspond to Petrarchan, Spenserian or simple couplet arrangements.
• Each quatrain has its own pair of alternating rhymes.
• The final rhyming couplet gives the form a strong sense of closure.
• The other schemes correspond to Petrarchan, Spenserian or simple couplet arrangements.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which metre is most commonly used in Shakespeare’s sonnets?
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Explanation:
• Shakespeare’s sonnets are predominantly written in iambic pentameter.
• A regular line normally contains five iambic feet, producing ten syllables with alternating unstressed and stressed beats.
• Shakespeare frequently varies the rhythm for emphasis and expressive effect.
• The metre became a major vehicle of English Renaissance poetry and drama.
• A regular line normally contains five iambic feet, producing ten syllables with alternating unstressed and stressed beats.
• Shakespeare frequently varies the rhythm for emphasis and expressive effect.
• The metre became a major vehicle of English Renaissance poetry and drama.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which group is primarily addressed in Sonnets 1 to 17?
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Explanation:
• Sonnets 1 to 17 are conventionally called the procreation sonnets.
• They urge a beautiful young man to marry and reproduce so that his beauty may survive in his descendants.
• Time, decay and self-love are recurring concerns in this group.
• The argument later shifts from biological continuation toward poetic immortality.
• They urge a beautiful young man to marry and reproduce so that his beauty may survive in his descendants.
• Time, decay and self-love are recurring concerns in this group.
• The argument later shifts from biological continuation toward poetic immortality.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
The larger group of sonnets traditionally associated with a beautiful young man is known as the sequence addressed to whom?
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Explanation:
• The Fair Youth is the conventional name given to the young man addressed in many of the early sonnets.
• The poems explore admiration, affection, absence, betrayal, beauty and the destructive power of time.
• The exact historical identity of the youth remains uncertain and disputed.
• The label is a critical convenience rather than a name supplied by Shakespeare.
• The poems explore admiration, affection, absence, betrayal, beauty and the destructive power of time.
• The exact historical identity of the youth remains uncertain and disputed.
• The label is a critical convenience rather than a name supplied by Shakespeare.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which figure dominates the later group beginning conventionally with Sonnet 127?
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Explanation:
• The later group beginning with Sonnet 127 is conventionally associated with the Dark Lady.
• These sonnets present desire as physical, conflicted, jealous and morally troubling.
• The woman is described in ways that challenge idealized Petrarchan beauty conventions.
• Her exact historical identity is unknown.
• These sonnets present desire as physical, conflicted, jealous and morally troubling.
• The woman is described in ways that challenge idealized Petrarchan beauty conventions.
• Her exact historical identity is unknown.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What role does the rival poet play in Shakespeare’s sonnets?
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Explanation:
• The rival poet appears as a competitor for the Fair Youth’s admiration and favour.
• His presence generates anxiety about poetic worth, patronage and the power of praise.
• The relevant sonnets do not identify the rival conclusively.
• Scholars have proposed several candidates, but no identification is certain.
• His presence generates anxiety about poetic worth, patronage and the power of praise.
• The relevant sonnets do not identify the rival conclusively.
• Scholars have proposed several candidates, but no identification is certain.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which sonnet begins by comparing the beloved to a summer’s day?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 18 opens with a comparison between the beloved and a summer’s day.
• The poem argues that the beloved is more lovely and more temperate than summer.
• Natural beauty declines, but poetic verse can preserve beauty beyond physical decay.
• The sonnet is a major statement of poetic immortality.
• The poem argues that the beloved is more lovely and more temperate than summer.
• Natural beauty declines, but poetic verse can preserve beauty beyond physical decay.
• The sonnet is a major statement of poetic immortality.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
In Sonnet 18, what ultimately preserves the beloved’s beauty?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 18 claims that the beloved’s beauty will live in the enduring lines of the poem.
• Seasonal beauty fades, and all natural things are subject to decline.
• Verse resists this process by preserving the beloved in language.
• The final couplet links the poem’s life to future readers.
• Seasonal beauty fades, and all natural things are subject to decline.
• Verse resists this process by preserving the beloved in language.
• The final couplet links the poem’s life to future readers.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which sonnet is built around the repeated declaration that true love does not alter with changing circumstances?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 116 defines ideal love as constant and unshaken by alteration.
• It presents love as an enduring mark and a guiding star.
• Time may destroy physical beauty, but genuine love is not subject to Time’s brief span.
• The poem uses definition, negation and metaphor to construct an absolute ideal.
• It presents love as an enduring mark and a guiding star.
• Time may destroy physical beauty, but genuine love is not subject to Time’s brief span.
• The poem uses definition, negation and metaphor to construct an absolute ideal.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which sonnet challenges conventional comparisons by declaring that the mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 130 rejects exaggerated Petrarchan comparisons of the beloved’s beauty.
• The speaker admits that his mistress does not resemble idealized poetic images.
• The final couplet affirms that his love is rare precisely because it does not depend on false comparison.
• The poem is anti-Petrarchan without being simply anti-romantic.
• The speaker admits that his mistress does not resemble idealized poetic images.
• The final couplet affirms that his love is rare precisely because it does not depend on false comparison.
• The poem is anti-Petrarchan without being simply anti-romantic.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which central idea is expressed in Sonnet 55?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 55 claims that powerful rhyme will outlive marble monuments and gilded memorials.
• War and time may destroy physical structures, but poetry preserves the beloved’s memory.
• The poem contrasts material commemoration with verbal immortality.
• Its confidence in poetry is linked to the continuing attention of future readers.
• War and time may destroy physical structures, but poetry preserves the beloved’s memory.
• The poem contrasts material commemoration with verbal immortality.
• Its confidence in poetry is linked to the continuing attention of future readers.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
In Sonnet 60, waves moving toward the pebbled shore chiefly symbolize what?
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Explanation:
• In Sonnet 60, successive waves symbolize minutes and human lives moving relentlessly toward their end.
• The image emphasizes continuity, repetition and inevitable mortality.
• Time wounds beauty and destroys youthful perfection.
• The concluding couplet again presents verse as a limited resistance to Time.
• The image emphasizes continuity, repetition and inevitable mortality.
• Time wounds beauty and destroys youthful perfection.
• The concluding couplet again presents verse as a limited resistance to Time.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which sequence of images structures Sonnet 73?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 73 moves through images of late autumn, fading twilight and a fire nearing extinction.
• Each image intensifies the awareness of ageing and approaching death.
• The progression contracts from a season to a day and then to the final moments of a fire.
• This awareness makes the beloved’s love stronger because loss is near.
• Each image intensifies the awareness of ageing and approaching death.
• The progression contracts from a season to a day and then to the final moments of a fire.
• This awareness makes the beloved’s love stronger because loss is near.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements about Sonnet 29.
Statement I: The speaker begins in a state of social and personal despair.
Statement II: The memory of the beloved transforms the speaker’s emotional condition.
Statement I: The speaker begins in a state of social and personal despair.
Statement II: The memory of the beloved transforms the speaker’s emotional condition.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the speaker begins by lamenting disgrace, isolation and dissatisfaction with his condition.
• Statement II is correct because thinking of the beloved raises his spirit like a lark at dawn.
• The emotional turn changes envy and despair into a sense of richness.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because thinking of the beloved raises his spirit like a lark at dawn.
• The emotional turn changes envy and despair into a sense of richness.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following statements about the procreation sonnets are correct?
1. They urge the young man to reproduce.
2. They connect beauty with responsibility to future generations.
3. They deny that time threatens physical beauty.
4. They criticize self-consuming narcissism.
1. They urge the young man to reproduce.
2. They connect beauty with responsibility to future generations.
3. They deny that time threatens physical beauty.
4. They criticize self-consuming narcissism.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because the speaker repeatedly urges the young man to marry and have children.
• Statement 2 is correct because beauty is treated as something that should be transmitted rather than privately hoarded.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the threat posed by time and decay is central to the argument.
• Statement 4 is correct because refusal to reproduce is represented as wasteful self-love.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because beauty is treated as something that should be transmitted rather than privately hoarded.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the threat posed by time and decay is central to the argument.
• Statement 4 is correct because refusal to reproduce is represented as wasteful self-love.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Assertion: Shakespeare’s sonnets repeatedly oppose poetry to time.
Reason: The speaker claims that verse can preserve beauty and memory after physical decay.
Reason: The speaker claims that verse can preserve beauty and memory after physical decay.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Time is repeatedly represented as a destroyer of youth, beauty and monuments.
• The Reason is correct because several sonnets claim that poetry can preserve the beloved in language.
• The promise of poetic survival directly creates the opposition between verse and temporal decay.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because several sonnets claim that poetry can preserve the beloved in language.
• The promise of poetic survival directly creates the opposition between verse and temporal decay.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Sonnet 18
2. Sonnet 55
3. Sonnet 73
4. Sonnet 130
List II
i. Anti-Petrarchan description of the mistress
ii. Poetry outlasting monuments
iii. Beloved compared with summer
iv. Images of autumn, twilight and dying fire
List I
1. Sonnet 18
2. Sonnet 55
3. Sonnet 73
4. Sonnet 130
List II
i. Anti-Petrarchan description of the mistress
ii. Poetry outlasting monuments
iii. Beloved compared with summer
iv. Images of autumn, twilight and dying fire
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 18 matches iii because it compares the beloved with a summer’s day.
• Sonnet 55 matches ii because it claims that poetry will outlast monuments.
• Sonnet 73 matches iv because it develops images of autumn, twilight and dying fire.
• Sonnet 130 matches i because it challenges idealized Petrarchan descriptions of the mistress.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
• Sonnet 55 matches ii because it claims that poetry will outlast monuments.
• Sonnet 73 matches iv because it develops images of autumn, twilight and dying fire.
• Sonnet 130 matches i because it challenges idealized Petrarchan descriptions of the mistress.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Sonnet 116 affirms rather than rejects the constancy of true love.
• Sonnet 12 reflects on time through images of a clock, fading daylight and seasonal decline.
• Sonnet 30 revisits old griefs through recollection.
• Sonnet 87 stages a farewell in which the beloved is released as a possession too valuable for the speaker.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrect.
• Sonnet 12 reflects on time through images of a clock, fading daylight and seasonal decline.
• Sonnet 30 revisits old griefs through recollection.
• Sonnet 87 stages a farewell in which the beloved is released as a possession too valuable for the speaker.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrect.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What is the principal effect of the final couplet in many Shakespearean sonnets?
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Explanation:
• The final couplet often sharpens, summarizes, reverses or qualifies the argument developed in the quatrains.
• Its paired rhyme gives it a strong epigrammatic force.
• The couplet may provide emotional closure, but it can also complicate what precedes it.
• It does not automatically cancel the quatrains or alter the metre into blank verse.
• Its paired rhyme gives it a strong epigrammatic force.
• The couplet may provide emotional closure, but it can also complicate what precedes it.
• It does not automatically cancel the quatrains or alter the metre into blank verse.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which paradox is central to many of Shakespeare’s sonnets about love and betrayal?
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Explanation:
• Several sonnets present love as continuing even when the speaker recognizes deceit, infidelity or moral weakness.
• This tension makes desire psychologically complex rather than idealized.
• Knowledge does not necessarily free the speaker from emotional attachment.
• The paradox is especially important in the Dark Lady sonnets.
• This tension makes desire psychologically complex rather than idealized.
• Knowledge does not necessarily free the speaker from emotional attachment.
• The paradox is especially important in the Dark Lady sonnets.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Consider the following statements about Sonnet 144.
Statement I: The poem presents two contrasting loves as figures of comfort and despair.
Statement II: The poem associates the fair male figure and the dark female figure with a conflict involving temptation.
Statement I: The poem presents two contrasting loves as figures of comfort and despair.
Statement II: The poem associates the fair male figure and the dark female figure with a conflict involving temptation.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the speaker describes two loves associated with comfort and despair.
• Statement II is correct because the dark female figure is imagined as tempting or corrupting the fair male figure.
• The poem dramatizes jealousy, desire and moral uncertainty through an allegorical contrast.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because the dark female figure is imagined as tempting or corrupting the fair male figure.
• The poem dramatizes jealousy, desire and moral uncertainty through an allegorical contrast.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following statements about the sonnet sequence are correct?
1. The order of the 1609 quarto has shaped modern interpretation.
2. Every sonnet identifies its addressee by a verified historical name.
3. The sequence includes shifting relationships among speaker, youth, woman and rival poet.
4. The poems should not automatically be treated as a literal autobiography.
1. The order of the 1609 quarto has shaped modern interpretation.
2. Every sonnet identifies its addressee by a verified historical name.
3. The sequence includes shifting relationships among speaker, youth, woman and rival poet.
4. The poems should not automatically be treated as a literal autobiography.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because the 1609 quarto provides the received numbering and sequence.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the sonnets do not supply verified historical names for the principal figures.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poems dramatize changing relations among the speaker, Fair Youth, Dark Lady and rival poet.
• Statement 4 is correct because lyric speakers and poetic situations cannot simply be equated with documentary autobiography.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 3 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the sonnets do not supply verified historical names for the principal figures.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poems dramatize changing relations among the speaker, Fair Youth, Dark Lady and rival poet.
• Statement 4 is correct because lyric speakers and poetic situations cannot simply be equated with documentary autobiography.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 3 and 4 only.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between the Fair Youth and Dark Lady groups is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• The Fair Youth sonnets often explore beauty, affection, friendship, time and poetic immortality.
• The Dark Lady sonnets more openly dramatize sexual desire, jealousy, deception and moral conflict.
• Both groups contain tensions and betrayals, so the distinction is one of emphasis rather than absolute separation.
• Option B gives the most accurate comparison.
• The Dark Lady sonnets more openly dramatize sexual desire, jealousy, deception and moral conflict.
• Both groups contain tensions and betrayals, so the distinction is one of emphasis rather than absolute separation.
• Option B gives the most accurate comparison.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best describes Shakespeare’s treatment of beauty, time and poetry?
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Explanation:
• Shakespeare repeatedly presents physical beauty as vulnerable to ageing, accident and death.
• Time is personified as a destroyer of youth, monuments and worldly achievement.
• Poetry cannot literally prevent death, but it can preserve beauty, memory and emotional presence for future readers.
• The tension between bodily mortality and verbal survival is central to the sequence.
• Time is personified as a destroyer of youth, monuments and worldly achievement.
• Poetry cannot literally prevent death, but it can preserve beauty, memory and emotional presence for future readers.
• The tension between bodily mortality and verbal survival is central to the sequence.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Three quatrains followed by a couplet సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. abab cdcd efef gg సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. Iambic pentameter సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: A. The procreation sonnets సమాధానం: A.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. The Fair Youth సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. The Dark Lady సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. He competes for the youth’s favour and poetic patronage సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: B. Sonnet 18 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: D. The enduring poem సమాధానం: D.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Sonnet 116 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Sonnet 130 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: B. Poetry can outlast monuments and war సమాధానం: B.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. The progress of human life toward death సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Autumn, twilight and dying fire సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Sonnet 116 — rejection of constant love సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. It provides a turn, summary or pointed resolution సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Love may persist despite knowledge of deception సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. The Fair Youth poems often idealize beauty and friendship, while the Dark Lady poems emphasize conflicted physical desire and betrayal సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. Physical beauty is vulnerable to time, but verse may grant a form of imaginative survival సమాధానం: D.