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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 51-113.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(b) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(c) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(d) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.
2. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Caesura.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Chiasmus.
3. What are "copses" (line 14)?
(a) The decayed remains of buildings.
(b) Spots of contrasting color.
(c) Stands of trees and brush.
(d) Shallow dips in the landscape.
4. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A country home.
(b) A monastery or convent.
(c) A castle.
(d) A cathedral.
5. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Metonymy.
Short Answer Questions
1. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
2. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
3. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?
4. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
5. Which is the best interpretation of lines 30-31, "And passing even into my purer mind/ With tranquil restoration"?
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