A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A worm

A rowboat

A blade of grass

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

Octaves

Monostiches

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

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes

Slant rhyme
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Cautious and curious

Plucky and determined

Depressed and somber

Whimsical and bright
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Five

Two

Seven

Ten
6 When was the poem published?
1891

1918

1861

1898
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The countryside, likely a grassy field

Cape Cod

A frozen lake

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

A beetle

Seeds

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

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Staring at her
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?
"I offered him a Crumb,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate enjambment

To replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection

To substitute for periods
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The recreation of a crime scene

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The rewriting of a family narrative

The retelling of a ghost story
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?
Murderous

Noble

Dull

Too complex to categorize
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
The sun and a swarm of bees

The ocean

A snake

A rowboat and butterflies
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

When the bird drinks dew

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

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm found only on sandy beaches

A ruler

A protractor

A worm used for bait fishing
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 dangers of the ocean

The pain of unrequited love

The unknowability of nature

The curiosity of children
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A whale

A rowboat

The worm
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Saw" and "raw"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Walk" and "halves"

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

Reference other poets

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

The speaker's desire to be free

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The difficulty of returning home
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

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