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Storgy

Quiz — Storgy

BY CHARLES CORAN.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

What does the speaker discover when he returns to the wine of Jurançon twenty years later?

Q02of 10

The poem is organized into five four-line stanzas (quintains). What is the dominant rhyme scheme of each stanza?

Q03of 10

What does Argenteuil piquette represent in the context of the poem?

Q04of 10

In the final stanza, the phrase 'gayety of my youth' functions primarily as what literary device?

Q05of 10

What is the central theme of the poem?

Q06of 10

The detail that the innkeeper is 'singing still the same refrain' after twenty years chiefly serves to:

Q07of 10

The French phrase 'au frais' used in stanza two means 'in the cool air.' Its inclusion in an otherwise English poem primarily creates what effect?

Q08of 10

The image of 'Souvenirs... from the bottle flow' in stanza three is best described as:

Q09of 10

What is the overall tone of the poem?

Q10of 10

The word 'autumnal' in the final line—'That failed in the autumnal flask'—functions primarily as:

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