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ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL, AND A COPY OF VERSES,.

by John Keats.

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

Q01of 10

What physical objects did the 'Ladies' actually give to Keats, prompting this poem?

Q02of 10

In the first part of the poem, the speaker adopts the persona of which figure when addressing the gifts?

Q03of 10

The allusion to 'Armida the fair, and Rinaldo the bold' on the goblet refers to characters from which literary tradition?

Q04of 10

Which Spenserian character is named in the lines about the knight's shield?

Q05of 10

What does the speaker claim is the effect of the 'sun-beamy tale' written on the scroll?

Q06of 10

In the central stanzas describing King Oberon, what is the dominant tone Keats establishes?

Q07of 10

In 'To ****,' Keats's comparison of the woman's eyebrows to 'two streaks across the sky' is an example of which poetic technique?

Q08of 10

When Keats writes that the woman's beauty could have made the Muses ten, what does he imply?

Q09of 10

What is the playful paradox with which the poem 'To ****' concludes?

Q10of 10

Which best describes the overall structural relationship between the two parts of this poem?

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