Q01of 10
What season and setting open the poem?
Q02of 10
The sun is described as 'white, as though chidden of God.' What does the word 'chidden' most nearly mean?
Q03of 10
What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza in 'Neutral Tones'?
Q04of 10
To what does Hardy compare the speaker's lover's eyes in the second stanza?
Q05of 10
What effect does Hardy achieve by repeatedly using gray, white, and pale imagery throughout the poem?
Q06of 10
In the third stanza, the lover's smile is called 'the deadest thing / Alive enough to have strength to die.' This is an example of which poetic technique?
Q07of 10
What does 'an ominous bird a-wing' function as in the poem?
Q08of 10
What is the primary theme of 'Neutral Tones'?
Q09of 10
The final stanza shifts the poem's perspective. What structural purpose does this shift serve?
Q10of 10
Which word in the poem is used to describe the sod, and what does it suggest about the natural world?
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