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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Atanaclasis.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antithesis.

2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Imagery.

3. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Christina Rossetti.

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Awe.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Pride.
(d) Anticipation.

5. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Personification and consonance.
(b) Euphony and personification.
(c) Assonance and euphony.
(d) Consonance and assonance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

2. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

4. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

5. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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