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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 technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
(a) Isocolon.
(b) Platitude.
(c) Inversion.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

2. What is a "roe" (line 69)?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) A deer.
(c) A fish.
(d) A squirrel.

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

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) Anaphora, assonance.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Sibilance, litotes.
(d) Assonance, sibilance.

5. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Dim."
(b) "Darkened."
(c) "Lonely."
(d) "Secluded."

Short Answer Questions

1. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?

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

3. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

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

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

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