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MEMORIES.

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 'Memories' by Longfellow?

Q02of 10

In the octave, the speaker compares fading memories of old friends to which image?

Q03of 10

What does the simile 'as by a magnet' convey about the speaker's past friendships?

Q04of 10

Which theme is most central to the poem?

Q05of 10

The friends described in the poem are 'not dead, / But absent.' What does this distinction emphasize?

Q06of 10

In the sestet, the speaker says he fears to ask whether old friends remember him. What best explains this fear?

Q07of 10

What is the tone of the poem's concluding couplet, 'Pleasures, like flowers, may wither and decay, / And yet the root perennial may be'?

Q08of 10

The word 'perennial' in the final line primarily functions to suggest which idea?

Q09of 10

Which poetic technique does Longfellow primarily use in the phrase 'As graves with grasses are'?

Q10of 10

According to the poem, what has caused the speaker's memories of old friends to become obscured?

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