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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 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Synecdoche.

2. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) The smoke's meaning is unclear.
(b) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(c) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(d) The trees obscure his vision.

3. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
(a) Inversion.
(b) Platitude.
(c) Isocolon.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

4. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?
(a) Unsuccessful, doomed to failure.
(b) Conceited, proud.
(c) Changeable, wavering.
(d) Foolish, worthless.

5. What is a "roe" (line 69)?
(a) A fish.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A wild boar.
(d) A deer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

2. According to lines 136 and 137, what do people like the speaker have a "cheerful faith" in?

3. What does the speaker mean in lines 146 and 147 when he says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?

4. In line 142, what word does the speaker use to characterize the kind of pleasure mature people feel in nature?

5. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?

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