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ON HER GIVING ME A DRAWING OF LITTLE STREET ARABS.

by James Russell Lowell.

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

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What is the occasion that prompts Lowell to write this sonnet?

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The allusion to 'Farnesina's vaults' in line 2 primarily serves to

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The phrase 'world-orphaned waifs of Want and Crime' (line 5) functions mainly as

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In the sestet, Lowell credits the artist's pencil with 'stealing his privilege.' Whose privilege is being stolen?

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The poem's structure is best described as

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The dominant theme of the sonnet can best be stated as

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The tone of the sonnet is best described as

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The image of 'Art's absolution from the stain / Of the polluting city-flood' draws on which type of figurative language?

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Lowell's reference to 'his Athens and the Muse's clime' suggests that the exiled artist in the octave

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When Lowell calls the drawing 'An Attic frieze you give, a pictured song,' he is using

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