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THE INTERPRETERS.

by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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

Q01of 10

What is the overall structural division of 'The Interpreters'?

Q02of 10

In Part I, the speaker claims that light would have been 'quenched in France' without which poet?

Q03of 10

What is the primary theme of the poem?

Q04of 10

In Part II, the phrase 'whose urn / Pours forth reverberate rays or shadowing showers' is an example of which poetic technique?

Q05of 10

What is the tone of the closing rhetorical question, 'What were they did no spirit give them back / Thanksgiving?'

Q06of 10

Which poetic form best describes the stanza structure used throughout the poem?

Q07of 10

What is the most plausible reason Swinburne mentions Sappho alongside Homer and Hugo?

Q08of 10

The image of 'waves of song' in 'the sea round Lesbos yet in waves of song / Had spoken' is best described as which device?

Q09of 10

Who is the speaker of the poem?

Q10of 10

In the lines 'Days dawn on us that make amends for many / Sometimes,' what does the word 'Sometimes' most directly convey?

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