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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 does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Muffling.
(b) Like a nun's habit.
(c) Rippling.
(d) Covering.

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Slant.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Eye.

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Kingdom.
(b) Daylight.
(c) Minion.
(d) Morning.

4. 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) Euphemism.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Metaphor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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

3. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

4. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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

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