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Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

by T. S. Eliot.

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

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?

Q02of 10

The epigraph from Dante's Inferno, spoken by Guido da Montefeltro, functions primarily to:

Q03of 10

What poetic technique is primarily used in the lines 'The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes' and the description that follows?

Q04of 10

The repeated refrain 'In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo' most likely serves to:

Q05of 10

When Prufrock says 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,' he is expressing:

Q06of 10

Prufrock's allusion to himself as Lazarus—'I am Lazarus, come from the dead'—is best understood as:

Q07of 10

The tone of the lines 'Do I dare / Disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse' is best described as:

Q08of 10

When Prufrock declares 'No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,' he is invoking Hamlet primarily to:

Q09of 10

In the poem's final image, mermaids singing 'each to each' while Prufrock believes 'they will not sing to me,' the mermaids most plausibly represent:

Q10of 10

According to the poem, what happens to Prufrock and his companion at the very end?

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