A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1892

1848

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and December

January and February

Summer and autumn

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

ABBA

ABBC

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake

A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Is on the surface seen!"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

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

Lilacs

Roses

Daffodils
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
The rising sun

Gray rocks

Singing birds

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Nine

Eighteen

Eleven

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

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Elizabeth
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Villette

Little Women

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

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

Spring

Fall

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

A celestial being

May's father

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

A steep bank

A forest

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

Two

One

Six
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 celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Manchester

Thorton

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

Trees

Birds

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

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