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1. To which genre does “The Seafarer” belong?
Elegy.
2. In which collection does “The Seafarer” appear?
The Exeter Book.
3. Per the Broadview editors (16-17), when is “The Seafarer” believed to have been written?
The late 900s CE.
4. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?
3.
5. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
Alliteration.
6. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?
Care's dwellings.
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