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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) The dawn.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Flight.

2. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Sanctified.
(b) Hypnotic.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Rapturous.

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Personification.
(d) Verbal irony.

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Atanaclasis.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antithesis.

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Slant.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

4. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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