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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 technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Sibilance.

2. Which technique is evident in line 10, "Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills"?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antistrophe.
(d) Antithesis.

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

4. What does the phrase "swaying mass" refer to (line 12)?
(a) The captain.
(b) The ship.
(c) The crowd.
(d) The flag.

5. 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) Synecdoche and personification.
(d) Alliteration and synecdoche.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Which is the best interpretation of line 9, when the speaker urges "O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells"?

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

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

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