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FRA SEBASTIANO..

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

What is the best description of the poem's form?

Q02of 10

What does the phrase 'Your Eminence' most likely indicate about the person being addressed?

Q03of 10

Which literary technique is most evident in the opening phrase 'Is surely jesting'?

Q04of 10

What is the central theme of this four-line poem?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'if you knew the life / Of artists as I know it' primarily establishes what about the speaker?

Q06of 10

What is the dominant tone of the speaker throughout the poem?

Q07of 10

The phrase 'you might think / Far otherwise' is best understood as meaning what?

Q08of 10

Which rhetorical strategy does Fra Sebastiano use to challenge the cardinal without direct accusation?

Q09of 10

Fra Sebastiano was historically a real Renaissance painter. How does Longfellow's choice of this name enrich the poem?

Q10of 10

What does the speaker most directly claim in these four lines?

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