A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A bird

A blade of grass

A rowboat

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

Monostiches

Sextets

Quatrains
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Unusual text alignment

Dashes

Slant rhyme

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

Whimsical and bright

Depressed and somber

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

Seven

Ten

Five
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1918

1898

1891
7 What is the setting of the poem?
Cape Cod

A frozen lake

The countryside, likely a grassy field

The Maine woods
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A butterfly

A beetle

A worm

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

Staring at her

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Clearing out of the path of a beetle
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Gardening

Capentry

Tailoring

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

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To substitute for periods

To replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection

To indicate enjambment
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The retelling of a ghost story

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The recreation of a crime scene

The rewriting of a family narrative
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

Murderous

Noble

Too complex to categorize
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A rowboat and butterflies

A snake

The ocean

The sun and a swarm of bees
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird consumes the worm

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

When the bird drinks dew
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A ruler

A protractor
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's graceful flight home

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
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The pain of unrequited love

The dangers of the ocean

The curiosity of children

The unknowability of nature
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"

"Saw" and "raw"

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

Segment individual images

Shift the meaning of individual words

Reference other poets
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The difficulty of returning home

The dangers of the natural world

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The speaker's desire to be free
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Walt Whitman

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

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