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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
3. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
4. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?
5. To whom is the poem dedicated?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?
2. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?
3. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?
4. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?
5. What is the relationship of the expression "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air" (lines 2-3) to the later reference to "the rein of a wimpling wing" (line 4)?
6. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."
7. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?
8. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?
9. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.
10. What is the meaning of the simile contained in lines 6 and 7: " As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ Rebuffed the big wind"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes how Hopkins's ideas about "inscape" and "instress" are reflected in "The Windhover." Define these terms clearly and then make a clear claim about how the poem exemplifies the poet's concern with both ideas. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the purpose of the repetitions of sound in "The Windhover." Consider how rhyme, alliteration, and assonance are all forms of repeated sound, and that these may aid Hopkins in creating both effects and meanings. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about how sprung rhythm helps to create tone in "The Windhover." Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
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