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?
May and December

Summer and autumn

May and June

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

ABCB

ABBC

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

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

George Eliot

Emily Brontë

Christina Rossetti
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?
Singing birds

Gray rocks

The rising sun

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Eighteen

Eleven

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

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry
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?
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

Fall

Spring

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

May's father

The birds

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

A seaside jetty

A mountain peak

A steep bank
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Three

Six

One

Two
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

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?
Trees

Birds

Flowers

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

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