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

2. The poem's title and first line contain an example of which technique?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Simile.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Personification.

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

4. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?
(a) The trochee.
(b) The iamb.
(c) The dactyl.
(d) The spondee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker of the poem?

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. Line 6, "O the bleeding drops of red," is an example of which technique?

4. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?

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

(see the answer key)

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