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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 type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?
(a) Identical rhyme.
(b) Near rhyme.
(c) Eye rhyme.
(d) Internal rhyme.

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

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

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

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)?
(a) Refrain.
(b) Chorus.
(c) Verse.
(d) Conceit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does it mean that the people are "exulting"?

3. In context, the literal meaning of the word "rack" in line two is which of the following?

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

5. By which other term, besides "Captain," does the speaker address the captain of the ship?

(see the answer key)

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