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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. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Assonance, sibilance.
(b) Sibilance, litotes.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Litotes, anaphora.

2. 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 philosophical nature.
(c) The speaker's ego.
(d) The speaker's eccentricity.

3. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his blood.
(b) In his bones.
(c) In his stomach.
(d) In his throat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?

3. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?

4. What is the primary rhetorical function of the alliteration in line 65, "Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts"?

5. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?

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