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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) Oxymoron.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Paradox.

2. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?
(a) The Severn.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Wye.
(d) The Dee.

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

4. Which technique is used in the line 70 phrase "I bounded o'er the mountains"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Elision.
(d) Platitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?

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

3. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?

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

5. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?

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