What is machiavelli's primary purpose in writing this
passage?
o to inform readers about the history of rome and sparta
and how they built their empires
o to inform readers about the fates of the cities
conquered by the spartans and the romans
o to persuade readers that a conquering prince must
destroy a former republic if he hopes to hold it
o to persuade readers that a republic will remember
freedom and someday rebel against a conqueror

Sonnets are lyric poems that often contain figurative language. which two parts of shakespeare's sonnet 116 are examples of repetition? sonnet 116 by william shakespeare (let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: ) 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 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. everything in quotations are the highlighted sentences, choose from these sentences to answer the question. make sure to choose two answers, you!