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?
Summer and autumn

May and June

January and February

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Octaves

Couplets

Sestets

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

A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

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

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë

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

Heather

Lilacs

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

A lake

The rising sun

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

Eleven

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral verse

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia

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

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Spring

Fall

Winter

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
May's father

June

The birds

A celestial being
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A forest

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

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

Six

Three

One
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried

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

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the marriage of May and June

With the end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine
23 Where was Brontë born?
Manchester

Liverpool

Thorton

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

Trees

Flowers

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

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