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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. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?
(a) Morning.
(b) Daylight.
(c) Kingdom.
(d) Minion.

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

3. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Consonance and assonance.
(b) Assonance and euphony.
(c) Personification and consonance.
(d) Euphony and personification.

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

5. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) A Victorian minister.
(b) The poet's spouse.
(c) Christ.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?

(see the answer key)

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