A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1892

1905

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

May and December

January and February

Summer and autumn

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

ABBA

ABBC

ABAB

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Daffodils

Lilacs

Roses

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

Singing birds

The rising sun

A lake

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Nine

Four

Eleven

Eighteen
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

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

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

Villette

Little Women

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

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

Fall

Spring

Summer

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

June

A celestial being

May's father

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

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?

One

Two

Three

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

Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard
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?

Manchester

Liverpool

Dorset

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

Flowers

Trees

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

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