1. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Rhyme.

2. In line 30, “have often had to endure in my seafaring,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Endure.
(b) My.
(c) Seafaring.
(d) Had.

3. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?
(a) His spirit.
(b) God.
(c) The man in town.
(d) The narrator.

4. In line 28, “suffered few sad journeys, scarcely believes,” relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) Believes.
(b) Sad.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Few.

5. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Superposition.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Justification.
(d) Carcinization.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “That man does not know, / he whose lot is fairest on land, / how I, wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile, / deprived of dear kinsmen, / hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers” (ll. 12-17). In the sentence, “I” is in apposition to which of the following?

2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?

3. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?

4. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?

5. The narrator comments "the curlew’s cry ” which of the following (l. 21)?

(see the answer key)

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