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 December

January and February

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

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

Heather

Daffodils

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
A lake

Gray rocks

The rising sun

Singing birds
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Nine

Eleven

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

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry
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?
Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Villette

Little Women
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Summer

Winter

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

May's father

The birds

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

A forest

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Six

Two

One

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the sun sets

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion

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

A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?
Liverpool

Thorton

Manchester

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

Flowers

Birds

Trees
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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