A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

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

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