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 bird

A blade of grass

A rowboat
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Quatrains

Sextets

Monostiches

Octaves
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Dashes

Unusual text alignment

Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization
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

Five

Seven

Ten
6 When was the poem published?
1898

1918

1891

1861
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The countryside, likely a grassy field

A frozen lake

The Maine woods

Cape Cod
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
Seeds

A butterfly

A beetle

A worm
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?
Gardening

Seafaring

Tailoring

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

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection

To substitute for periods

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

The recreation of a crime scene

The rewriting of a family narrative

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon
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?
Too complex to categorize

Murderous

Noble

Dull
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A snake

The ocean

The sun and a swarm of bees

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 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 trepidation about giving the bird a crumb

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's graceful flight home

The bird's rapidly moving eyes
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The unknowability of nature

The curiosity of children

The pain of unrequited love

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?
"Saw" and "raw"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Seam" and "swim"

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

Alter the rhyme scheme

Segment individual images

Reference other poets
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The speaker's desire to be free

The dangers of the natural world

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?
Edgar Allan Poe

Elizabeth Bishop

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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