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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "O Captain! My Captain!" lines 1-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term describes the poem's repeated use of the phrases "O Captain! My Captain!" (lines 1 and 9) and "fallen cold and dead" (lines 8, 16, and 24)?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Refrain.
(c) Verse.
(d) Chorus.

2. What is the most accurate way to describe the poem's stanza form?
(a) Octave.
(b) Sestet.
(c) Double tercet.
(d) Double quatrain.

3. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Cacophony.

4. In context, the word "fearful" in line 1 indicates that the trip was which of the following?
(a) Full of frightening obstacles.
(b) A bad idea from the beginning.
(c) The cause of the captain's death.
(d) A metaphor for an internal struggle.

5. Which technique is evident in line 10, "Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Antimetabole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?

2. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?

3. The poem's title and first line contain an example of which technique?

4. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?

5. What does the phrase "swaying mass" refer to (line 12)?

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