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TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

by James Russell Lowell.

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

Q01of 10

The letter from Homer Wilbur is addressed to the editors of the Atlantic Monthly and is dated January 6, 1862. What is the primary occasion that prompts Wilbur to write?

Q02of 10

Which structural feature best describes the overall form of this work?

Q03of 10

In the verse section, the speaker says the Concord road is one 'I, for one, / Most gin'lly ollers call it _John Bull's Run_.' What technique does this nickname primarily employ?

Q04of 10

Wilbur compares Biglow's poem to 'Twa Brigs' by Robert Burns and traces the lineage further back. What does this chain of literary allusions chiefly accomplish in the letter?

Q05of 10

In the verse, the speaker imagines Revolutionary War soldiers on Prospect Hill: 'The rail-fence posts, acrost the hill thet runs, / Turn ghosts o' sogers should'rin' ghosts o' guns.' What type of imagery is most dominant here?

Q06of 10

What is the central theme shared by both the prose letter and the dialect verse?

Q07of 10

How does Wilbur characterize the tone of the British press and public men toward America during the Civil War period?

Q08of 10

Wilbur cites the Latin phrase '_I was wrong_' (rendered as three short words) as the hardest for any man or nation to utter. In context, who has most recently demonstrated the ability to say this?

Q09of 10

The speaker of the verse describes a wise rooster who 'Stands to 't thet moon-rise is the break o' day' and then compares him to 'Mister Seward.' What rhetorical technique is this?

Q10of 10

In the verse, the phrase 'Mixin' the puffict with the present tense' most nearly means that the speaker is doing which of the following?

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