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