A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1892

1846

1848

1905
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?
ABBA

ABCB

ABBC

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature
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

Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Heather

Daffodils

Roses

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

The rising sun

A lake

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Eighteen

Nine

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

Jane and Lydia

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

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Winter

Fall

Spring

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
A celestial being

May's father

June

The birds
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A seaside jetty

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Six

One

Three

Two
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

Bright and hurried

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard

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 beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June
23 Where was Brontë born?
Manchester

Liverpool

Dorset

Thorton
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
A pile of rocks

Trees

Flowers

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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