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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) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Anaphora, assonance.
(d) Sibilance, litotes.

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

3. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A country home.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) A castle.
(d) A monastery or convent.

4. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Cacophony and parallelism.
(b) Consonance and antithesis.
(c) Parallelism and consonance.
(d) Antithesis and cacophony.

5. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(b) The positive memories created for others.
(c) Gestures of love and respect from others.
(d) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree does the speaker mention being under?

2. How did the speaker primarily relate to nature when he was younger?

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

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

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

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