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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 114-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Symbolism.

2. What does the speaker compare his sister's future mind to in line 142?
(a) A colorful marketplace.
(b) A large house.
(c) A rushing river.
(d) A dense forest.

3. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?
(a) He can move more quickly without using his body.
(b) He can see more clearly without using his vision.
(c) He can understand more thoroughly without using his mind.
(d) He can exercise more discipline without using his will power.

4. 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) Sibilance, litotes.
(d) Anaphora, assonance.

5. What is the "remoter charm" that the speaker mentions in line 83?
(a) The attraction of far-away places.
(b) The excitement of discovery.
(c) The bittersweet feeling of nostalgia.
(d) The pleasure of philosophical thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "past existence" does the speaker imply he may one day no longer be able to see in his sister's eyes?

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

3. What kind of image opens the poem?

4. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?

5. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

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