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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. Which techniques are used in lines 139-140 "And let the misty mountain-winds be free/ To blow against thee: and, in after years"?
(a) Situational irony and asyndeton.
(b) Internal rhyme and caesura.
(c) Asyndeton and internal rhyme.
(d) Caesura and situational irony.

2. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(b) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.

3. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's eccentricity.
(b) The speaker's distance from the past.
(c) The speaker's philosophical nature.
(d) The speaker's ego.

4. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Antithesis and cacophony.
(b) Cacophony and parallelism.
(c) Parallelism and consonance.
(d) Consonance and antithesis.

5. Who is the "thou" addressed in line 117?
(a) The speaker's sister.
(b) God.
(c) The Wye.
(d) The reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?

3. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

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

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