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 blade of grass

A bird

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

Quatrains

Octaves

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

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes

Unusual text alignment
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
Ten

Two

Seven

Five
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1891

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 beetle

A butterfly

Seeds

A worm
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Flying home

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Staring at her
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Seafaring

Capentry

Tailoring

Gardening
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 replace semicolons

To substitute for periods

To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

The retelling of a ghost story

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

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

Too complex to categorize

Noble

Dull
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A snake

The ocean

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 speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird drinks dew

When the bird consumes the worm
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm found only on sandy beaches

A protractor

A worm used for bait fishing

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 bird's graceful flight home

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

The bird's rapidly moving eyes
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?
A rowboat

The worm

Butterflies

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

"Saw" and "raw"

"Walk" and "halves"

"Seam" and "swim"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Segment individual images

Reference other poets

Alter the rhyme scheme

Shift the meaning of individual words
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

The difficulty of returning home

The speaker's desire to be free

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

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