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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) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Euphemism.

2. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Christina Rossetti.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the poem dedicated?

2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

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

4. Between which lines does the poem use "light rhyme"?

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

(see the answer key)

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