A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1848

1905

1892
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?
ABBA

ABBC

ABCB

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 dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti
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?
A lake

Singing birds

Gray rocks

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Nine

Four

Eleven

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

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Middlemarch

Little Women

Villette

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

Christina Rossetti

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

Summer

Fall

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

June

May's father

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

A mountain peak

A steep bank

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

Two

Six

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June

When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

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

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

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

Liverpool

Thorton

Manchester
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Birds

Trees

Flowers

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

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