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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "O Captain! My Captain!" lines 1-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?
(a) Accumulation.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Paraprosdokian.
(d) Periphrasis.

2. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Just coming into port.
(b) Just leaving the port.
(c) Docked in the port.
(d) On the open sea.

3. Which term describes the poem's repeated use of the phrases "O Captain! My Captain!" (lines 1 and 9) and "fallen cold and dead" (lines 8, 16, and 24)?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Verse.
(c) Chorus.
(d) Refrain.

4. What feature of the Captain's face does line 17 focus on?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His mouth.
(c) His chin.
(d) His brow.

5. Line 6, "O the bleeding drops of red," is an example of which technique?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "O Captain! my Captain!"?

2. The poem's title and first line contain an example of which technique?

3. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?

4. What is a "keel" (line 4)?

5. Which details in the second stanza evoke a patriotic occasion?

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