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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. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Pejorative diction.
(c) Vernacular diction.
(d) Oxymoron.

2. How do the speaker's present emotions compare with his past emotions?
(a) His emotions are now deeper and more overwhelming.
(b) His emotions are now less complicated and confusing.
(c) His emotions are now less concealed and secretive.
(d) His emotions are now more muted and controlled.

3. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?
(a) Foolish, worthless.
(b) Changeable, wavering.
(c) Conceited, proud.
(d) Unsuccessful, doomed to failure.

4. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Transcendent experience.
(b) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(c) Complete and total.
(d) To purify or refine.

5. What technique is used in lines 100-101: "And the round ocean and the living air,/ And the blue sky, and in the mind of man"?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Caesura.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?

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

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

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