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 worm

A bird

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

Sextets

Octaves

Quatrains

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

Slant rhyme

Dashes

Unusual text alignment

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

Depressed and somber

Cautious and curious

Whimsical and bright

Plucky and determined
5 How many stanzas does the poem have

Five

Ten

Two

Seven
6 When was the poem published?

1891

1861

1898

1918
7 What is the setting of the poem?

The countryside, likely a grassy field

The Maine woods

Cape Cod

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

A worm

Seeds

A beetle

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

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Staring at her

Flying home

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

Tailoring

Capentry

Seafaring

Gardening
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 replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection

To substitute for periods

To indicate enjambment
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?

The rewriting of a family narrative

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The retelling of a ghost story

The recreation of a crime scene
14 What meter does the poem make use of?

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic octameter

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

Dull

Too complex to categorize

Noble

Murderous
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?

The ocean

A snake

The sun and a swarm of bees

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 drinks dew

When the bird consumes the worm

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 bird's graceful flight home

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm
20 What is a major theme in the poem?

The pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children

The dangers of the ocean

The unknowability of nature
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?

A rowboat

The worm

A whale

Butterflies
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?

"Walk" and "halves"

"Saw" and "raw"

"Seam" and "swim"

"Grass" and "pass"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme

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

The difficulty of returning home

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?

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Edgar Allan Poe

Can you give me some quotes for this poem?

He bit an Angle Worm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw,

Speaker

These two lines in the opening of the poem are notable for the way they twist a familiar image. A bird eating a worm is a commonplace scene in nature. But here, because of...

Asked by Eman F #1394346

Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/15/2026 8:22 PM