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BEAVER BROOK.

by James Russell Lowell.

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

Q01of 10

In the opening stanza, the cedar's shadow moving across the moss is used to suggest what?

Q02of 10

What is the primary effect of 'Warm noon brims full the valley's cup' in the second stanza?

Q03of 10

The 'shy chewink' startled by the speaker's footstep is best understood as what kind of poetic element?

Q04of 10

In Stanza 6, 'Undine' slips along the race and floods the wheel with 'light and grace.' What is Undine?

Q05of 10

In Stanza 7, 'Armfuls of diamond and of pearl' are tossed with every turn of the millstones. What do these gems represent?

Q06of 10

Which word best describes the tone of Stanza 8, beginning 'But Summer cleared my happier eyes'?

Q07of 10

In Stanza 9, the flood described as 'Thick, here and there, with human blood' turning 'the world's laborious wheels' introduces which major thematic shift?

Q08of 10

The final two stanzas envision 'that new childhood of the Earth.' What does this phrase most likely represent?

Q09of 10

Throughout the poem the miller is portrayed as unaware of the beauty powering his mill. How does Lowell use this figure?

Q10of 10

What is the predominant metrical form of 'Beaver Brook'?

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