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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. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?
(a) ABCB.
(b) ABBA.
(c) ABAC.
(d) AABB.

2. What is the most accurate way to describe the poem's stanza form?
(a) Double tercet.
(b) Octave.
(c) Sestet.
(d) Double quatrain.

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

4. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?
(a) Personification and simile.
(b) Alliteration and synecdoche.
(c) Simie and alliteration.
(d) Synecdoche and personification.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?

4. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?

5. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?

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