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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 details in the second stanza evoke a patriotic occasion?
(a) The bouquets and wreaths.
(b) The captain and the bells.
(c) The crowd and the shore.
(d) The flag and bugle.

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

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

4. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?
(a) Accumulation.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Periphrasis.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?

3. Who is the speaker of the poem?

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

5. 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)?

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