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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 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.

2. What is the rhyme pattern of the first four lines of each stanza?
(a) ABBA.
(b) AABB.
(c) ABCB.
(d) ABAC.

3. What is the most common type of metrical foot in "O Captain! My Captain!"?
(a) The iamb.
(b) The spondee.
(c) The trochee.
(d) The dactyl.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The list of ways the crowd is celebrating the arrival of the ship in lines 9-12 is an example of which technique?

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

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