A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1848

1905

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
Summer and autumn

January and February

May and December

May and June
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBA

ABBC

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

Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
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?
Heather

Lilacs

Roses

Daffodils
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?
Eighteen

Eleven

Four

Nine
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

Victorian poetry
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?
Little Women

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

Christina Rossetti
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Summer

Spring

Fall

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
May's father

June

A celestial being

The birds
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?
Three

Six

Two

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

Bright and hurried

Slow and dolorous

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

The first snow of winter

Swimming in the ocean

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Liverpool

Manchester

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

Trees

Birds

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

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