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

2. Who is the author of "O Captain! my Captain!"?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) William Cullen Bryant.
(d) Walt Whitman.

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

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

5. In the second quatrain of the second stanza, what becomes clear about the speaker's state of mind?
(a) He hopes to hide the captain's death from the crowd.
(b) He is afraid that he is in some way responsible for the captain's death.
(c) He is actually asleep and only dreaming of the captain's death.
(d) He has not fully accepted the captain's death.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Line 4, "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring," contains examples of which techniques?

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

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

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