A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1905

1892

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

May and December

May and June

Summer and autumn

January and February
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABBC

ABCB

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Sestets

Couplets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake
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 Dickinson

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë
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

Nine

Eighteen

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia

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

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Little Women

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

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

Summer

Fall

Winter

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

The birds

May's father

A celestial being

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

A seaside jetty

A mountain peak

A forest

A steep bank
18 How many voices does the poem have?

Two

Three

One

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

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous

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 speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Dorset

Thorton

Manchester

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

Trees

A pile of rocks

Birds

Flowers
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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