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

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

3. What is "sillion" (line 12)?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) A type of soil.
(c) An uncountable amount.
(d) The sparkling of a diamond.

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

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Him."
(b) "Level."
(c) "Air."
(d) "Rolling."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

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

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

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

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