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

2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Euphemism.

3. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Awe.
(d) Pride.

4. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Soar.
(b) Break.
(c) Stir.
(d) Buckle.

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(c) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(d) Metaphor and alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name of the titular bird?

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

3. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?

5. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

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