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A JACOBITE'S EXILE.

by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

Q01of 10

The subtitle '1746' anchors the poem to a specific historical event. Which battle does this date reference, and what was its significance for Jacobites?

Q02of 10

The poem is written in a dialect that blends Scots words with standard English. What is the primary effect of this linguistic choice?

Q03of 10

In the stanza beginning 'O lordly flow the Loire and Seine,' what structural contrast does Swinburne establish?

Q04of 10

What does the speaker mean when he says those who fell on 'dark Drumossie's day' 'keep their hame ayont the faem'?

Q05of 10

Which of the following best describes the poem's dominant tone?

Q06of 10

The phrase 'the mool that haps them roun' and laps them' employs which poetic technique most prominently?

Q07of 10

The recurring image of the sea in the poem functions primarily as a symbol of what?

Q08of 10

How does the poem's form—its use of the ballad stanza and refrains—reinforce its subject matter?

Q09of 10

In the stanza 'On Aikenshaw the sun blinks braw,' what is the speaker's rhetorical purpose in naming specific local places such as Aikenshaw, Keilder-side, and Wansbeck?

Q10of 10

What is the speaker's final wish as expressed in the closing stanzas of the poem?

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