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Quiz — Storgy

PALINGENESIS.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

What is the primary setting established in the poem's opening stanza?

Q02of 10

The title 'Palingenesis' refers to rebirth or regeneration. How does this title relate most directly to the poem's central question?

Q03of 10

In stanza four, the 'old belief' about alchemists serves primarily as a/an:

Q04of 10

Which best describes the tone of the seventh stanza, in which the sea responds to the speaker?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'rolling meadows of amethyst' in stanza one is an example of:

Q06of 10

In stanza six, the speaker's cry for 'the vanished splendors' and 'the swift stream of life' that 'bounds o'er its rocky channel' most likely represents:

Q07of 10

How does the speaker's attitude shift between stanzas eight and nine?

Q08of 10

The final stanza's image of turning 'its last leaves in reverence and good heed' until reading 'The End' uses which literary technique?

Q09of 10

The apparitions in stanza two are described as 'apparelled in the loveliness which gleams / On faces seen in dreams.' What effect does this qualification produce?

Q10of 10

The wild-roses that 'shuddered in the wind, and shed / Their petals of pale red' in stanza three function primarily to:

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