A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1892

1905

1848

1846
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?
ABBC

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"

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

Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

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

Daffodils

Lilacs

Roses
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

Eighteen

Eleven

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Elizabeth

Jane and Lydia

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

Villette

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

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

Winter

Summer

Fall
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 mountain peak

A forest

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

One

Three

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When May marries June

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

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

Swimming in the ocean

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

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

Manchester

Dorset

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

Birds

A pile of rocks

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Looking for birds

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

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