Writing a thesis statement • Gap year is a term that refers to a year that students take off before they go to
college.
•Many college students spend most of their time studying and socializing with
their peers.
• Studies show that high school students who take a year off before they go to
college get better grades.
•Many students take community-service jobs in order to broaden their interests
and to increase their social awareness.

A) Fit the meter.

Explanation: meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound.  A Shakespearan sonnet is a poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg. From the given options, the one that expresses the reason why Shakespeare shortened some words in his sonnets, is the corresponding to option A: to fit the meter.