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QuizMultiple Choice

8.1: Female Colonial Poets

Question 4 • HVA 26-27 IM English ELA 11 A

Which rhyming couplet from Phillis Wheatley’s “On Imagination” contains an inverted sentence?

Answer
A
“Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies,Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes,”
B
“To tell her glories with a faithful tongue, Ye blooming graces, triumph in my song.”
C
“Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind.”
D
“Imagination! who can sing thy force?Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?”
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