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

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

3. What is the common name of the titular bird?
(a) Osprey.
(b) Kestrel.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Kite.

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

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

Short Answer 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"?

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

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

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

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