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

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

3. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Rippling.
(b) Covering.
(c) Like a nun's habit.
(d) Muffling.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

2. What is "sillion" (line 12)?

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

4. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

5. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?

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