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RECONCILIATION..

by Walt Whitman.

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

Q01of 10

What single word does the speaker place 'over all' at the poem's opening?

Q02of 10

To what does Whitman compare the single word 'over all' in the opening line?

Q03of 10

Which two figures are personified as sisters who wash the world?

Q04of 10

What action does the speaker perform at the end of the poem?

Q05of 10

How does the speaker describe his dead enemy in moral or spiritual terms?

Q06of 10

What does the repeated washing by Death and Night primarily symbolize in the poem?

Q07of 10

Which best describes the overall tone of 'Reconciliation'?

Q08of 10

The poem's form—long, flowing, unrhymed lines—is most characteristic of which structural technique?

Q09of 10

The phrase 'soil'd world' most directly refers to what in the poem's context?

Q10of 10

The speaker's gesture toward his enemy's corpse primarily serves to illustrate which theme?

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