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A SHADOW.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

What is the central situation that the speaker imagines in the opening lines?

Q02of 10

The metaphor of a 'volume wherein I have read / But the first chapters' refers to which of the following?

Q03of 10

Which of the following best describes the poem's overall structure and form?

Q04of 10

In the sestet, the image of 'a troop of shadows moving with the sun' most likely represents which of the following?

Q05of 10

What shift in perspective occurs between the octave and the sestet?

Q06of 10

The phrase 'so full of beauty and so full of dread' creates which rhetorical effect?

Q07of 10

Which of the following best describes the tone of the sestet?

Q08of 10

The title 'A Shadow' most plausibly alludes to which element within the poem?

Q09of 10

The speaker's use of 'we' in the final line ('as we have done') has what effect?

Q10of 10

What literary technique is most evident in the repetition of 'What would' in the opening lines?

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