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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) Octave.
(b) Double tercet.
(c) Sestet.
(d) Double quatrain.

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

3. 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) Chorus.
(b) Verse.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Refrain.

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

5. Line 6, "O the bleeding drops of red," is an example of which technique?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Metonymy.

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 type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?

3. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?

4. Who is the speaker of the poem?

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

(see the answer key)

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