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AN EMBER PICTURE.

by James Russell Lowell.

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

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'An Ember Picture'?

Q02of 10

In the opening stanzas, the speaker uses the term 'mordant of fancy' as a metaphor. What does this image most likely suggest?

Q03of 10

What were the speaker and the woman primarily doing when they were together?

Q04of 10

The line 'The thunderous rumors of battle / Were silent the while for us' most likely serves to:

Q05of 10

What is the central image that the speaker says permanently remained with him?

Q06of 10

The speaker's tone when describing the woman's beauty ('Had she beauty? Well, not what they call so') is best characterized as:

Q07of 10

The poem's title, 'An Ember Picture,' is most directly developed through which poetic technique?

Q08of 10

The fading of the candle light—'Flashed fainter, and flashed no more'—functions in the poem primarily as:

Q09of 10

Which literary device is most prominent in the closing lines: ''Tis a face that can never grow older, / That never can part with its gleam'?

Q10of 10

The speaker compares the returning vision to 'a scrap of ballad-rhyme.' This simile emphasizes that the memory is:

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