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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. In what way does the diction in line 135, "Shall e'er prevail against us," contrast with much of the diction in the rest of the poem?
(a) It is more pejorative.
(b) It is more concrete.
(c) It is more elevated.
(d) It is more colloquial.

2. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?
(a) His own.
(b) His sister's.
(c) Tintern Abbey's.
(d) The Wye's.

3. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) The positive memories created for others.
(b) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(c) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(d) Gestures of love and respect from others.

4. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Caesura.
(d) Polysyndeton.

5. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) To purify or refine.
(b) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(c) Complete and total.
(d) Transcendent experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "roe" (line 69)?

2. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

3. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?

4. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

5. Which of the following is an examples of the "wild ecstasies" the speaker mentions in line 141?

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