A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A bird

A rowboat

A worm

A blade of grass
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

Monostiches
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Slant rhyme

Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Unusual text alignment
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
Five

Ten

Seven

Two
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1891

1918

1898
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A frozen lake

The countryside, likely a grassy field

Cape Cod

The Maine woods
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
Seeds

A butterfly

A beetle

A worm
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Flying home

Staring at her

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Clearing out of the path of a beetle
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Tailoring

Gardening

Seafaring

Capentry
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To substitute for periods

To indicate enjambment

To replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The retelling of a ghost story

The recreation of a crime scene

The rewriting of a family narrative

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic octameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Too complex to categorize

Dull

Murderous

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 speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird consumes the worm

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 bird's graceful flight home

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

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

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The curiosity of children

The pain of unrequited love

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?
"Saw" and "raw"

"Seam" and "swim"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Walk" and "halves"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Reference other poets

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme

Shift the meaning of individual words
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The speaker's desire to be free

The dangers of the natural world

The difficulty of returning home
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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