A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A blade of grass

A bird

A rowboat

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

Quatrains

Sextets

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

Slant rhyme

Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Depressed and somber

Whimsical and bright

Cautious and curious

Plucky and determined
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Ten

Two

Seven

Five
6 When was the poem published?
1918

1898

1861

1891
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The Maine woods

The countryside, likely a grassy field

Cape Cod

A frozen lake
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A worm

Seeds

A butterfly

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

Staring at her

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?
Capentry

Seafaring

Tailoring

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

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To substitute for periods

To replace semicolons

To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The recreation of a crime scene

The rewriting of a family narrative

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

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic pentameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Murderous

Too complex to categorize

Dull

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

A rowboat and butterflies

A snake

The sun and a swarm of bees
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird drinks dew

When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A ruler

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A worm used for bait fishing

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

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

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

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

The dangers of the ocean

The unknowability of nature

The curiosity of children
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
The worm

A whale

Butterflies

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

"Seam" and "swim"

"Walk" and "halves"

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

Segment individual images

Reference other poets

Shift the meaning of individual words
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The speaker's desire to be free

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

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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