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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 sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Elision.
(d) Alliteration.

2. What kind of a thought is "lofty" (131)?
(a) Ambitious, selfish.
(b) Unrealistic, foolish.
(c) Elevated, high-minded.
(d) Snobbish, conceited.

3. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A visual image of the mountains.
(b) An olfactory image of smoke.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

5. What device is used in the phrase "evil tongues" (131)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker say his many excursions in nature impacted his desire to come to this particular landscape with his sister?

2. What idea is conveyed by the details listed toward the end of the fourth verse paragraph?

3. Which is the best definition of "intercourse" in the context of line 134?

4. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?

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

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