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

2. Who is the speaker of the poem?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A writer.

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

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

5. 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) Paraprosdokian.
(c) Periphrasis.
(d) Understatement.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. In context, the word "fearful" in line 1 indicates that the trip was which of the following?

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

5. Line 6, "O the bleeding drops of red," is an example of which technique?

(see the answer key)

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