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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 39-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the phrase “to try for myself” (l. 34), relative stress / emphasis falls on the first or only syllable of which of the following?
(a) For.
(b) To.
(c) Myself.
(d) Try.

2. In line 44, “He has no thought of the harp or the taking of rings,” there is an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metonymy.

3. The narrator remarks that “I heard nothing there but the noise of the sea” (l. 18). Relative stress / emphasis falls at the beginning of which words in the remark?
(a) Heard and noise.
(b) There and the.
(c) I and sea.
(d) I and nothing.

4. The narrator remarks he "heard nothing there but the noise of” which of the following (l. 18)?
(a) The laughter of men.
(b) The sea.
(c) Mead-drink.
(d) Music.

5. The narrator remarks that “the wild swan’s song / sometimes served as my music, the gannet’s call / and the curlew’s cry for the laughter of men, / the seagull’s singing for mead-drink” (ll. 19-22). The passage offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Pointillism.
(b) Passant.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 29, “proud and puffed up with wine, what I, weary,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?

2. Of which of the following is narrator deprived when he “wretched with care, dwelt all winter / on the ice-cold sea in the paths of exile" (ll. 13-16)?

3. In the phrase “summer’s guardian announces sorrow” (l. 54), relative stress / emphasis DOES NOT fall on the first syllable of which of the following?

4. Which of the following will "urge the eager-hearted / spirit to travel" (ll. 48-52)?

5. To what does the phrase “summer’s guardian" refer (l. 54)?

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