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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 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) Conceit.
(c) Verse.
(d) Chorus.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which technique is evident in the phrase "for you the flag is flung" (line 10)?

5. What type of rhyme is employed in line 20, "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won"?

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