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CHAUCER.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

What is the overall form of 'Chaucer' by Longfellow?

Q02of 10

In the octave, what is Chaucer doing when he hears the lark's song?

Q03of 10

What does the phrase 'poet of the dawn' most likely signify about Chaucer?

Q04of 10

The chamber walls are 'depicted all around' with which subjects?

Q05of 10

What is the dominant sensory shift that occurs between the octave and the sestet?

Q06of 10

Who is the speaker of 'Chaucer,' and what is that speaker's relationship to the subject?

Q07of 10

The simile 'writeth in a book like any clerk' is best interpreted as suggesting that Chaucer writes with

Q08of 10

Which literary technique does Longfellow primarily use in the sestet's lines 'I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note / Of lark and linnet'?

Q09of 10

What is the tone of Longfellow's poem toward Geoffrey Chaucer?

Q10of 10

The 'painted glass in leaden lattice bound' through which the lark's song and sunshine enter is most significant because it

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