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Sonnet 18 - In line 5, what is "the eye of heaven?"*

O a. The North Star
O b. God
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c. The Sun
O d. A fire

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0 c. The Sun

Step-by-step explanation:

Sun is considered as the eye of heaven because the sun is considered as a gateway to heaven that looking down on all the earth. In Sonnet XVIII that was written by William Shakespeare, he used "eye of heaven" as a figure of speech called metonymy that refers to the substitution of something that is closely related to that thing or concept or idea.

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