45. Based on the passage, one can be certain that ________________.
(A) the male character in the sonnet is the one who is usually a gifted amateur at displaying his ingenuity and eventually won the females’ love in return
(B) the lady in the sonnets is usually cold, chaste and beautiful and usually submitted to the knights’ bravery and heroic quest
(C) sonnets have been used as a literary exercise for displaying poets’ ingenuity in the expression of love
(D) English poets felt free to modify the strict Italian form as conventions of the Italian sonnets were flexible in nature