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

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

3. By which other term, besides "Captain," does the speaker address the captain of the ship?
(a) Brother.
(b) Leader.
(c) Master.
(d) Father.

4. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Aphorism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "O Captain! my Captain!"?

4. In context, the word "fearful" in line 1 indicates that the trip was which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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