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Strange fits of passion have I known.

by William Wordsworth.

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

Q01of 10

What is the speaker's stated audience for the story he is about to tell?

Q02of 10

Which image is used to describe Lucy's vitality and beauty at the opening of the ride?

Q03of 10

What formal structure best describes this poem?

Q04of 10

What single image serves as the central structural device that drives the poem's tension?

Q05of 10

The phrase 'fond and wayward thoughts' most nearly characterizes which aspect of the speaker's psychology?

Q06of 10

What does the phrase 'Kind Nature's gentlest boon' refer to in context?

Q07of 10

Which technique does Wordsworth use in 'hoof after hoof / He raised, and never stopp'd' to convey the horse's movement?

Q08of 10

What is the dominant tone of the poem's first five stanzas before the final exclamation?

Q09of 10

Lucy's dwelling is referred to by what term in the poem?

Q10of 10

The speaker's sudden cry—'O mercy! … If Lucy should be dead!'—is best understood as an example of which poetic concept Wordsworth himself theorized?

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