Read the following excerpt from shakespeare's "sonnet 73" and answer the question.

that time of year thou mayst in me behold
when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang

which simile best restates the central metaphor of these lines?

a. winter choirs are like sweet birds, joyful and full of song.
b. winter limbs are like an empty choir, bare and silent.
c. yellow leaves are like the sun, alive and bright.
d. yellow leaves are like birds in winter, hibernating or dead.

B.Winter limbs are like an empty choir, bare and silent.

The excerpt from "Sonnet 73" does not have a positive connotation. There is nothing to indicate that things are positive, happy, alive, or bright. Therefore, options A and C are not valid choices. The question is about the central metaphors of the lines which means that the answer should be about the thing that is the focus of the lines. What is the focus? The yellow leaves or the winter limbs. The goal of describing the yellow leaves is to show how few there are on the winter limbs. The excerpt then goes on to describe the limbs shaking and comparing them to an empty choir because the birds have all flown south for winter.

the author is intending to draw attention to the plight of refugees, editorial and biography support this. both workpieces make the reader empathize with enrique as well as with the other young migrants from central america. the writer, however, is using a different approach to each text.

the editorial includes strong words to persuade readers. he is trying hard to convince readers in the us to change its refugee approach.

the biography relies on narrative techniques and figurative language which the writer uses wisely in the setting, characterization, and personification to educate readers on the topic.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.