• Which Victorian novelist wrote this comic ballad?
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  • What single word in the poem means “long ago”?
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  • Where did the sage originally want his pigtail to hang?
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  • How many times does the poem repeat the exact line “The pigtail hung behind him”?
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  • Name the two rhyming words that end the lines “And though his efforts never slack / And though he twist and twirl, and tack”.
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  • Which line shows the sage’s total lack of practical common sense?
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  • What figure of speech is used in “He mused upon this curious case”?
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  • Pick any one word from the glossary that means “a wise man”.
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  • State the exact line that proves the sage never quit trying.
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  • Overall, is the poem’s ending truly tragic or simply ironic?
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