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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 125 and 126, "Knowing that Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Imagery.

2. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) John Keats.

3. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?
(a) Unsuccessful, doomed to failure.
(b) Changeable, wavering.
(c) Foolish, worthless.
(d) Conceited, proud.

4. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Assonance, sibilance.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Sibilance, litotes.
(d) Anaphora, assonance.

5. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?
(a) He is not sure whether he is imagining the smoke.
(b) The trees are unaware of the people beneath them.
(c) The trees obscure his vision.
(d) The smoke's meaning is unclear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. What is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?

3. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

4. What device is used in lines 146 and 147 when the speaker says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?

5. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?

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