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A FABLE FOR CRITICS.

by James Russell Lowell.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

In the opening section, why has Phoebus never forgiven Daphne?

Q02of 10

The critic figure in the poem is said to have been, in a previous existence, a donkey. What is the primary satirical point Lowell makes through this conceit?

Q03of 10

Which of the following best describes the poem's dominant structural characteristic?

Q04of 10

When Lowell writes that Apollo used the critic to 'drive the rabble away,' and that the critic's review offered aloud caused authors to flee, the primary target of this satire is:

Q05of 10

The image of the critic as one who could review a book with the depth of 'a flea / Which, supping on Wordsworth' writes recollections is an example of which poetic technique?

Q06of 10

In Lowell's portrait of Emerson, the line 'A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders' is best understood as conveying:

Q07of 10

The pun in the line 'To see those loved graces all taking their leaves' depends on which double meaning?

Q08of 10

The tone Lowell adopts toward his own poem in the passage beginning 'I called this a Fable for Critics' is best described as:

Q09of 10

The figure who nervously peeps around corners muttering about 'a bloody conspiracy' against American letters, and who craves a single English critical notice, is satirized chiefly for:

Q10of 10

According to the poem, what fundamental intellectual deficiency prevents the critic from properly evaluating genuinely original new work?

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