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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) Internal rhyme and caesura.
(b) Caesura and situational irony.
(c) Asyndeton and internal rhyme.
(d) Situational irony and asyndeton.

2. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.
(b) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(c) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(d) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.

3. 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) Unconsciousness.
(d) Hypnotic trance.

4. What technique is employed when the speaker says he cannot "paint" the person he used to be?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Symbolism.

5. What idea is the antecedent of "thus" in line 115 when the speaker says "If I were not thus taught"?
(a) Youthful enthusiasm for physical sensation gives way to more philosophical experiences.
(b) The spiritual presence in nature is the foundation of what is best in the speaker.
(c) People become progressively less a part of nature as they grow older.
(d) The speaker has learned to hear the music of humanity when he looks at nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?

2. What is implied by the speaker's mention of being here he can no longer hear his sister's voice?

3. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

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

5. Which technique is used in the line 70 phrase "I bounded o'er the mountains"?

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