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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Solitary Reaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed in lines 7 and 8, "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Antanaclasis.

2. In the fourth stanza, when the speaker finally places himself in the scene, what is it clear he is there to do?
(a) He is out walking.
(b) He is there to confess his love for the woman.
(c) He is delivering supplies.
(d) He is working on a farm.

3. What technique is used in the line "A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard" (line 13)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Contraction.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Paradox.

4. What is the young woman doing in the field?
(a) Watching over grazing sheep.
(b) Harvesting a grain crop.
(c) Pushing a cart down a path.
(d) Watching the speaker from the hillside.

5. Which of the following most clearly communicates the speaker's admiration for the reaper's singing ability?
(a) The poem's elevated diction.
(b) The poem's nature imagery.
(c) The repeated use of exclamation points.
(d) The metaphors in the second stanza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reasonable inference can be made about the reaper from line 17, "Will no one tell me what she sings?"?

2. Besides that the reaper may be singing about some terrible moment in history, what else does the speaker guess she might be singing about?

3. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?

4. In the second stanza, to whom is the nightingale depicted singing?

5. Which is the best interpretation of line 6's reference to "a melancholy strain"?

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