A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1846

1905

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

January and February

May and December

Summer and autumn

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

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Brontë

Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Lilacs

Roses

Daffodils

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

Gray rocks

Singing birds

The rising sun

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Nine

Eighteen

Four

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet

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

Mary and Elizabeth

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?

Middlemarch

Little Women

Wuthering Heights

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Summer

Spring

Winter

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

A celestial being

June

The birds

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

A steep bank

A seaside jetty

A forest

A mountain peak
18 How many voices does the poem have?

Three

One

Six

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

Bright and hurried

Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

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

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June

When the celestial being talks to the speaker
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?

Dorset

Manchester

Thorton

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

Flowers

A pile of rocks

Trees

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

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