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 rowboat

A worm

A bird
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?
Slant rhyme

Dashes

Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Plucky and determined

Depressed and somber

Whimsical and bright

Cautious and curious
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Two

Ten

Seven

Five
6 When was the poem published?
1918

1898

1891

1861
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A frozen lake

The Maine woods

Cape Cod

The countryside, likely a grassy field
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A beetle

Seeds

A worm

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

Staring at her

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Flying home
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Tailoring

Capentry

Gardening

Seafaring
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"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 reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

The retelling of a ghost story
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Noble

Murderous

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

A snake

The ocean

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

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

A protractor

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A ruler
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 pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children

The unknowability of nature

The dangers of the ocean
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A rowboat

A whale

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

"Saw" and "raw"

"Seam" and "swim"

"Grass" and "pass"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Reference other poets

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme

Shift the meaning of individual words
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The speaker's desire to be free

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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