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DEDICATION.

by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

Q01of 10

What is the primary subject of 'Dedication' by Swinburne?

Q02of 10

What is the metrical form predominantly used in 'Dedication'?

Q03of 10

What does 'Joyous Gard' most likely represent in the context of the poem?

Q04of 10

What poetic technique is most evident in the phrase 'wind and sun on the wild sweet shore'?

Q05of 10

What does the speaker conclude about the light of the remembered past — 'The light that lightens from seasons clad / With darkness now'?

Q06of 10

In the stanza beginning 'Reining my rhymes into buoyant order,' the speaker's image of 'reining my rhymes' is best described as what kind of figure of speech?

Q07of 10

Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem's final two stanzas?

Q08of 10

The closing image of 'they that beheld the dove / Bear home her signal across the sea' alludes most directly to which source?

Q09of 10

What is the grammatical and rhetorical function of the word 'Love' in the line 'One sign can the years efface not. Love,'?

Q10of 10

Which thematic tension does the poem most consistently explore and then resolve?

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