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 June

January and February

May and December

Summer and autumn
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBC

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Sestets

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains
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?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Brontë

Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

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

Roses

Daffodils

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
The rising sun

Singing birds

A lake

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

Eighteen

Nine

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte

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

Wuthering Heights

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?
Summer

Spring

Fall

Winter
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 steep bank

A seaside jetty

A mountain peak

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Six

Two

One

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

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous
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

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

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

Manchester

Liverpool

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

Trees

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

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