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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. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about his relationships.
(b) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(c) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(d) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.

3. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?
(a) Failing vision.
(b) Shallow relationships.
(c) Misunderstandings.
(d) Fading memories.

4. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Complication.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Confusion.

5. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Litotes.
(b) Anthimeria.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

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

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

5. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?

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