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Please, can someone help me.I am really desperate HELP!!! Urgently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.I need you to read the following texts and answer the questions that follow.Be sure to read both texts, since the 4 questions below are from both texts.There is also an extra question on vocabulary check.

SONNET 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

SONNET 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Answer the following questions:
1) What does the speaker in sonnet 130 say about his mistress?
A) His mistress is a real person
B) His mistress is a kind goddess.
C)His mistress is a graceful dancer.
2) What does the speaker in sonnet 130 love about his mistress?
A) her lips
B) Her voice
C) Her cheeks
3) In sonnet 29, what is the speaker envious of?
A) another person's wife
B) Another person's money
C) Another person's abilities

4) In sonnet 29, what does the speaker think about to overcome his envy.
A) his enemy's misfortune
B)His loved one's qualities
C) His own wealth of knowledge

5) A person who belies his or her excitement appears
A) Calm
B) Confused
C) Enthusiastic.
Thank you so much

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?maybe this will help somewhat?

question 1) a) shes a real person who isnt fully perfect and has flaws

question 2) b) her voice "I love to hear her speak"

In "Sonnet 130," Shakespeare describes the woman he loves as a real person instead of exaggerating her beauty. At first, his description seems almost insulting. He says that her eyes are dull -- not bright like the sun. Her lips are more pale than coral.

Sonnet 130

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

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