A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1905

1846

1848

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

Summer and autumn

May and June

January and February

May and December
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBC

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Daffodils

Heather

Roses

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?

Singing birds

Gray rocks

The rising sun

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eleven

Nine

Eighteen

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Summer

Spring

Fall

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?

The birds

A celestial being

June

May's father
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?

One

Two

Three

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?

Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When May marries June

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day
23 Where was Brontë born?

Liverpool

Manchester

Dorset

Thorton
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?

Flowers

A pile of rocks

Birds

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

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