A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A rowboat

A worm

A blade of grass

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

Monostiches

Octaves

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

Slant rhyme

Unusual text alignment

Dashes
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Cautious and curious

Depressed and somber

Plucky and determined

Whimsical and bright
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Seven

Ten

Five

Two
6 When was the poem published?
1891

1861

1918

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

The countryside, likely a grassy field

The Maine woods

Cape Cod
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
Seeds

A worm

A butterfly

A beetle
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Flying home

Staring at her

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

Gardening

Tailoring

Seafaring
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate repetition and interjection

To replace semicolons

To indicate enjambment

To substitute for periods
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

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

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Dull

Noble

Too complex to categorize

Murderous
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A rowboat and butterflies

The sun and a swarm of bees

The ocean

A snake
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

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

When the bird drinks dew

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm used for bait fishing

A protractor

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A ruler
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The bird's graceful flight home

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

The pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children

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

A rowboat

Butterflies

The worm
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?
Segment individual images

Shift the meaning of individual words

Reference other poets

Alter the rhyme scheme
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The speaker's desire to be free

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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