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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) Atanaclasis.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Anaphora.

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

3. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Hypnotic.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Sanctified.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "B" lines"?

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

4. In line 5, what does the speaker claim the bird is feeling?

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

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