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Storgy

Quiz — Storgy

BY JOSEPH MERY.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

Which three elements does the speaker identify at a glance from the high portal?

Q02of 10

What form best describes the poem's overall structure?

Q03of 10

What technique does Longfellow employ when the Sea, the Town, and the Highway each deliver a warning in their own voice?

Q04of 10

The Highway says its 'wheel-tracks guide / To the pale climates of the North.' What does this image primarily convey?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'springtime of the Hesperides / Begins, but endeth nevermore' functions primarily as what kind of literary device?

Q06of 10

What is the dominant tone of the poem's final four stanzas (stanzas 5–10)?

Q07of 10

The opening image of a rose that rises 'to touch our hands in play' contributes which effect to the poem?

Q08of 10

The poem's speaker urges the reader to 'Forget to-morrow in to-day.' This counsel most closely aligns with which philosophical idea?

Q09of 10

How does the poem's imagery in stanzas 6–7 (red-tiled roofs, olive trees, grapevines, flower-topped mountains) characterize the paradise the speaker inhabits?

Q10of 10

By ending the poem with the same three nouns used in the opening stanza—'The Sea, the Town, and the Highway'—Longfellow achieves which structural effect?

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