A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1846

1892

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

May and December

January and February

May and June

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

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Octaves

Sestets

Couplets
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A rainy day by a lake

A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

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

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Lilacs

Daffodils

Roses

Heather
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?

The rising sun

Gray rocks

Singing birds

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eighteen

Nine

Eleven

Four
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

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Winter

Summer

Spring

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

May's father

A celestial being

The birds

June
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?

A seaside jetty

A forest

A steep bank

A mountain peak
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

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous
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

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Manchester

Thorton

Liverpool

Dorset
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?

Trees

Birds

Flowers

A pile of rocks
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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