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

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A bird.
(b) A knight.
(c) A horse.
(d) A falconer.

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

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

5. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) To have brushed against its force and been knocked back.
(b) To have used rapid movements to shine or polish it.
(c) To have stood up to and turned away its advance.
(d) To have abruptly and rudely responded to it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?

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