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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 is emphasized by the diction "appetite" and "feeling" in line 82?
(a) Physical sensations.
(b) Passionate emotion.
(c) Unthinking selfishness.
(d) Youthful vitality.

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

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

4. What device is used in lines 146 and 147 when the speaker says "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,/ Should be thy portion"?
(a) Epithet.
(b) Meiosis.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Polysyndeton.

5. Which technique is employed in line 64, "While here I stand, not only with the sense"?
(a) Platitude.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Isocolon.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of image opens the poem?

2. Which is the best definition of the word "vain" in the context of line 52?

3. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?

4. Which sound device is used in line 56, "Have hung upon the beatings of my heart"?

5. In what way does the diction in line 135, "Shall e'er prevail against us," contrast with much of the diction in the rest of the poem?

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