10. Analyze how linguistic techniques support the development of one or more strong ideas in at least TWO short texts. Love is something that affects all of us, it can be the most precious thing. in Shakespeare's sonnets 18 and 116 we can understand the strong idea of ​​the value of love as we understand the writer's definition of love and his immortal message that true love never fades. we can understand this through linguistic techniques such as sonnet form, metaphor, and personification. Shakespeare's sonnet 18 helps readers understand the strong idea of ​​the value of love through its use of sonnet form and personification. The first line of quatrain 1 "shall I compare you to a summer's day?" he introduces the comparison between his love and a summer day with a rhetorical question. he then writes that his love is "fairer and more tempered", which further establishes the idea of ​​love and states that his love is more beautiful than on a summer's day. The structure of quatrain 2 develops the theme of the sonnet and makes it clear to the readers that Shakespeare values ​​his love more than a summer's day as he names all the faults of summer. An example of when the idea of ​​love is developed in quatrain 2 is when Shakespeare uses the personification of the sun by saying "Often his golden completion darkens" and "sometimes declines" he emphasizes that summer has flaws and is not perfect. Since Shakespeare does not name any of his love's flaws, this suggests that his love may have no flaws or that Shakespeare is so in love that he overlooks them all. The sonnet structure of quatrain 3 completes and resolves the issue of comparison. it is clear that Shakespeare values ​​his love more than summer and that the beauty of his love is great as it "will not fade away." The writer......middle of the paper......the writer's use of the sonnet form and metaphors, readers are forced to understand his own definition of true love and the immortal message that true love never fades because it is always a fixed sign. because of this, readers can have a deeper understanding of what true love truly is and that if the love is "altered" or "shaken" to the point of not being eternal, then it was not true love. a lot about true love by reading Shakespeare's sonnets. His views on love are reinforced through the use of linguistic techniques. Through reading these sonnets, readers can better understand what true love truly is and build their expectations for future loves. one could argue that the type of love Shakespeare describes is unrealistic in modern society, but I would like to think that everyone should consider these views as primary to the love we might encounter.