Five men are employed for strawberry picking. They all don't pick strawberries at the same speed. They pick in the ratio of 1::2:3-4:5. That is, the second man picks 2 times as many strawberries as the
first in the same amount of time, and the 3rd man picks 3 times as many strawberries as the first, and so
on. To compensate for this, their manager makes the slower men work for more time. In fact, he makes
them spend time in the ratio 5 :: 4 :: 3 :: 2 :: 1. That is, the first man works 5 times longer than the 5th
man, and so on. At the end of the day, the manager realizes that they have not all picked the same
amount of strawberries. Two men have picked 250 strawberies each. Two other men have picked more
then these two. And one man has picked the maximum - more than anyone else. How many
strawberries did this man pick?

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.

i think it is c. good luck!