A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1846

1848

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and June

May and December

January and February

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

ABBA

ABCB

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

Sestets

Quatrains

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse

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."

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

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

Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

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

Roses

Lilacs

Heather
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?
Eighteen

Nine

Four

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

Love sonnet

Pastoral verse

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

Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth

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

Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

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

Fall

Summer

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

June

May's father

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

A steep bank

A mountain peak

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

One

Two

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

Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
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?
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 end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Manchester

Thorton

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

A pile of rocks

Flowers

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Writing poetry

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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