Q01of 10
What overall structure best describes 'Midnight Mass for the Dying Year'?
Q02of 10
Which literary device is primarily at work when the Year is described as an old man whom Death 'plucks by the beard'?
Q03of 10
The simile 'The winds, like anthems, roll' primarily develops which theme?
Q04of 10
In the stanza beginning 'And the hooded clouds, like friars,' what is the effect of the phrase 'their prayers are all in vain'?
Q05of 10
The comparison of the Old Year to 'weak, despised Lear' functions mainly to convey what?
Q06of 10
What does the 'summer-like day' in the sixth stanza represent within the poem's narrative?
Q07of 10
In the line 'Like the voice of one who crieth / In the wilderness alone,' which allusion is most clearly invoked?
Q08of 10
What is 'Euroclydon' and why does Longfellow invoke it here?
Q09of 10
The closing lines 'Kyrie, eleyson! / Christe, eleyson!' are best understood as performing what function?
Q10of 10
According to the poem, what happens to the 'sweet day' that briefly comforts the Old Year?
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