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

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

3. Where is the ship in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Docked in the port.
(b) Just coming into port.
(c) Just leaving the port.
(d) On the open sea.

4. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?
(a) They are drinking and celebrating.
(b) They are quietly watchful.
(c) They are crying out in grief.
(d) They are cheering excitedly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Which details in the second stanza evoke a patriotic occasion?

5. Line 5, " But O heart! heart! heart!" is an example of which technique?

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