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SOME TIME.

by Eugene Field.

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

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'Some Time'?

Q02of 10

What does the speaker do immediately after observing the sleeping child?

Q03of 10

The 'darkened place / Where others come to weep' most likely refers to which setting?

Q04of 10

Which poetic technique is most prominently used in the phrase 'The voiceless lips, the wrinkled brow'?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'patient smile shall show' in the second stanza primarily conveys which quality of the deceased speaker?

Q06of 10

How does the speaker's tone shift between the first and second stanzas?

Q07of 10

What literary device is employed by the poem's repeated closing lines in each stanza?

Q08of 10

In the third stanza, the speaker asks the child to 'look backward, then, into the years.' This appeal is best described as which technique?

Q09of 10

The image of tears falling 'as I write' in the third stanza serves which primary purpose?

Q10of 10

Which theme is most central to the poem as a whole?

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