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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 17, “hung with icicles of frost while hail flew in showers,” how many relatively stressed / emphasized syllables are present?
(a) 5.
(b) 4
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. The narrator notes suffering which of the following "in days of toil" (ll. 2-3)?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Troubled times.
(c) Pox and penury.
(d) Sweet surrender.

3. In line 29, the description “proud and puffed up with wine” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Alliteration.

4. The narrator describes the screaming eagle as which of the following (ll. 24-25)?
(a) Sky-beautiful.
(b) Carrion-eating.
(c) Dewy-feathered.
(d) Family-like.

5. The phrase “in days of toil / I’ve often suffered troubled times, / hard heartache” (ll. 2-4) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered” (ll. 23-24). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

2. How many stressed / emphasized syllables occur in the opening comment of the poem, “I sing a true song of myself” (l. 1)?

3. Which of the following does the narrator “come to know / on the keel of a ship” (ll. 5-6)?

4. The narrator suggests that the seafarer of the title is which of the following (ll. 35-38)?

5. The narrator remarks that “Storms beat the stone cliffs where the tern answered them, / icy-feathered; often the eagle screamed, / dewy-feathered” (ll. 23-25). The passage offers an example of which of the following?

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