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

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

3. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?
(a) B and C.
(b) B and D.
(c) A and C.
(d) A and B.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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