A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1892

1905

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?

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake

A beautiful summer day in nature

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

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

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

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

Emily Brontë
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Roses

Lilacs

Heather

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

Singing birds

A lake

Gray rocks

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

Eleven

Nine

Eighteen

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth

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

Middlemarch

Little Women

Villette

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

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

Fall

Winter

Summer

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

A celestial being

June

The birds

May's father
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?

Two

One

Six

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

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets

When May marries June
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 marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day
23 Where was Brontë born?

Dorset

Thorton

Manchester

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

Flowers

Birds

A pile of rocks

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

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