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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 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Pleonasm.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Oxymoron.

2. Which technique is used in the phrase "the fever of the world" in line 55?
(a) Simile.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

3. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?
(a) Through his spirit.
(b) Through his mind.
(c) Through his actions.
(d) Through his senses.

4. What modern description might we give of the state that the speaker describes toward the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Hallucination.
(c) Hypnotic trance.
(d) Unconsciousness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

3. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?

4. To whom is the apostrophe in lines 57-59 addressed?

5. What are "copses" (line 14)?

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