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

2. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Docked in the port.
(b) Just leaving the port.
(c) On the open sea.
(d) Just coming into port.

3. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme.
(c) Near rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

4. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?
(a) Synecdoche and personification.
(b) Personification and simile.
(c) Simie and alliteration.
(d) Alliteration and synecdoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?

3. What is a "keel" (line 4)?

4. What feature of the Captain's face does line 17 focus on?

5. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?

(see the answer key)

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