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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
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. To whom is the poem dedicated?
3. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
4. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
5. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What Christian paradox is expressed when the speaker refers to the bird as both a "minion" and a "dauphin" (lines 1-2)?
2. What is the meaning of the simile contained in lines 6 and 7: " As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding/ Rebuffed the big wind"?
3. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem's references to a "dauphin" and a "chevalier"?
4. How do the images in the last three lines support the idea that there is "no wonder" in the kestrel's fight (line 9)?
5. Describe the relationship of the content in the poem's final six lines to the content in lines 1-8.
6. What is a "windhover," and what characteristic of its flight is focused on in this poem?
7. Describe the poetic form of "The Windhover."
8. In "The Windhover," who is speaking, and what moves him to speak?
9. What makes a creature like the windhover an appropriate symbol for Christ?
10. What is the relationship of the expression "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air" (lines 2-3) to the later reference to "the rein of a wimpling wing" (line 4)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the tone of "The Windhover." Describe this tone, provide evidence supporting your interpretation, and then tie this tone to the poem's larger meaning. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the chivalric diction and imagery in "The Windhover." Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that explicates the various techniques that "The Windhover" uses to convey motion. Support your observations with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from "The Windhover." If you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.
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