A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A worm

A bird

A blade of grass

A rowboat
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Octaves

Monostiches

Quatrains
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Unconventional capitalization

Unusual text alignment

Dashes

Slant rhyme
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Depressed and somber

Whimsical and bright

Plucky and determined

Cautious and curious
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Ten

Seven

Two

Five
6 When was the poem published?
1891

1861

1918

1898
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The Maine woods

A frozen lake

Cape Cod

The countryside, likely a grassy field
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A beetle

A butterfly

A worm

Seeds
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Staring at her

Flying home

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Drinking dew from a blade of grass
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Tailoring

Seafaring

Capentry

Gardening
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"I offered him a Crumb,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection

To substitute for periods

To replace semicolons
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The rewriting of a family narrative

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The recreation of a crime scene

The retelling of a ghost story
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Dull

Murderous

Too complex to categorize

Noble
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
The ocean

The sun and a swarm of bees

A snake

A rowboat and butterflies
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird consumes the worm

When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird drinks dew
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A protractor

A ruler
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The bird's graceful flight home
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children

The unknowability of nature

The dangers of the ocean
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A whale

The worm

A rowboat
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Walk" and "halves"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Saw" and "raw"

"Seam" and "swim"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Alter the rhyme scheme

Segment individual images

Shift the meaning of individual words

Reference other poets
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The difficulty of returning home

The speaker's desire to be free

The dangers of the natural world

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Edgar Allan Poe

Elizabeth Bishop

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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