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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 7 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the best definition of "impels" in the context of line 102?

3. How does the speaker characterize the daytime activities of humans in the city?

4. What do lines 60 and 61 describe with expressions like "recognitions dim and faint"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does the speaker provide that demonstrates how much he enjoyed the sensations of nature when he was younger?

2. What does the speaker say he is gaining from looking at the scene, besides "present pleasure" (65)?

3. In what ways does the speaker compare himself to an animal?

4. What comment does the speaker make about his motivations for being in nature when he was younger?

5. In the third verse paragraph, what argument does the speaker have with himself?

6. What is the "sad perplexity" the speaker feels in line 62?

7. What does the speaker say he now sees in nature that he did not see when he was younger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," by William Wordsworth (widely available online). Write an essay that compares and contrasts the theme of this poem with the theme of "Tintern Abbey." How do these poems portray the recollection of youth? What relationship do these poems posit between humans and the natural world? What contribution do their differing techniques and forms make to the two poems' themes? Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from both poems, and be sure to cite your sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the relationship "Tintern Abbey'" posits between nature, the sublime, and transcendence. Establish the literary definitions of the Romantic terms "sublime" and "transcendence" and then provide analysis of how the poem treats these topics and their relationship to nature. Provide textual evidence to support your analysis, and cite all sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze the symbolic value of the River Wye in "Tintern Abbey." Draw on mentions of the river throughout the poem, including in the poem's title, as you build a case about what idea or ideas the presence of the river communicates. Provide both quoted and paraphrased evidence of diction, imagery, and detail that support your interpretation.

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