A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1892

1848

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
January and February

May and December

Summer and autumn

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

Couplets

Quatrains

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

A lunar eclipse

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti
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?
The rising sun

Singing birds

Gray rocks

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eleven

Eighteen

Nine

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

Love sonnet
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

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

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

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

Winter

Spring

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

The birds

May's father

June
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?
Two

Three

One

Six
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 May marries June

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets
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 speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

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

Dorset

Manchester

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

Flowers

A pile of rocks

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

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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