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A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1905

1892

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

May and December

May and June

Summer and autumn

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

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"To greet the general glow."

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

Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

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

Heather

Daffodils

Lilacs

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

A lake

Gray rocks

Singing birds

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eleven

Nine

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Love sonnet

Elizabeth 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

Middlemarch

Little Women

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Winter

Spring

Fall

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

May's father

The birds

A celestial being

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

A forest

A steep bank

A seaside jetty

A mountain peak
18 How many voices does the poem have?

One

Three

Two

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?

Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

Gardening in her backyard

A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine
23 Where was Brontë born?

Dorset

Thorton

Liverpool

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

A pile of rocks

Birds

Flowers

Trees
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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