Which of the following lines from shakespeare’s sonnet 130 most strongly indicates that it is written about the “dark lady?
my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
coral is far more red than her lips' red
my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head

Explanation:

Metaphor is a figure of speech when a word or phrase is transferred to an object or action that isn't literally applicable .

Right answer of this question is "If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;"

Explanation:

This sonnet that Shakespeare has written is a tribute to his dark lady. This sonnet goes beyond in its description of the beauty of a lady. Usually, we read poems in which the poet describes the beauty of a woman like that of an angel. But the lady of the poet of Sonnet 130, is not like those ladies. The lady in the sonnet have "dark complexion". And we get to know this in line 3 of the sonnet,

"If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;"

Dun means brownish gray.

So, the lines that describe that the lady is dark is line 3, (which is not mentioned is the options).

c) eager anticipation.

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.