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?
Summer and autumn

May and December

May and June

January and February
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

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

Octaves

Sestets

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

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

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

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë

George Eliot
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?
The rising sun

Gray rocks

A lake

Singing birds
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Eleven

Eighteen

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

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

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

Villette

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

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

Fall

Winter

Spring
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
June

May's father

The birds

A celestial being
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?
One

Three

Six

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

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter

Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard
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

Liverpool

Manchester

Thorton
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

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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