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? Quatrains Octaves Sextets Monostiches 3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem? Dashes Unusual text alignment Unconventional capitalization Slant rhyme 4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem? Depressed and somber Plucky and determined Cautious and curious Whimsical and bright 5 How many stanzas does the poem have Two Seven Five Ten 6 When was the poem published? 1861 1918 1898 1891 7 What is the setting of the poem? Cape Cod The Maine woods The countryside, likely a grassy field 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? Drinking dew from a blade of grass Flying home Staring at her Clearing out of the path of a beetle 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? "I offered him a Crumb," "Than Oars divide the Ocean," "And ate the fellow, raw," "He glanced with rapid eyes," 12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry? To replace semicolons To substitute for periods To indicate repetition and interjection To indicate enjambment 13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble? The retelling of a ghost story The rewriting of a family narrative The reminiscence of a summer afternoon The recreation of a crime scene 14 What meter does the poem make use of? Lines of trochaic octameter Lines of dactylic hexameter Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter Lines of iambic pentameter 15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird? Murderous Dull Too complex to categorize Noble 16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza? A snake The sun and a swarm of bees The ocean A rowboat and butterflies 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 protractor A ruler A worm used for bait fishing A worm found only on sandy beaches 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 speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb The bird's rapidly moving eyes The bird's graceful flight home 20 What is a major theme in the poem? The curiosity of children The unknowability of nature The dangers of the ocean The pain of unrequited love 21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem? A whale Butterflies A rowboat The worm 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? 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 difficulty of returning home Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding The dangers of the natural world The speaker's desire to be free 25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work? Nathaniel Hawthorne Walt Whitman Edgar Allan Poe Elizabeth Bishop