A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1892

1848

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?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves

Couplets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

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,"

"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

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

Roses

Heather

Lilacs
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?
Nine

Eleven

Eighteen

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

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

Victorian poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Elizabeth

Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Middlemarch

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Fall

Winter

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

The birds

May's father

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

A seaside jetty

A steep bank

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
One

Three

Two

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous

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

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June
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 end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June

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

Thorton

Manchester

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

A pile of rocks

Birds

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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