Read the following excerpt from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, identify the simile, and answer the question. ROMEO: The brightness of [Juliet’s] cheek would shame those stars,

As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

Which of the following best expresses the meaning of the simile in the excerpt above?

There’s more to Juliet that meets the eye.
Juliet’s beauty surpasses that of all others.
Juliet’s appearance is shameful.
Juliet sings like a bird.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.