A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

1 What do the linnets represent?
The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's artworks

The daughter's friends
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares."

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"

"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Age and wisdom

Sublime beauty

Rootedness in place

Physical strength and size
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metonymy

Assonance
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Octets

Sestets

Quintains

Quatrains
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Blanket

Jar lid

Eyelid

Curtain
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Prayer

Daydream

Brook

Monument
9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life?
Memorability

Sublimity

Stability

Artistry
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"the storm is howling"

"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDCAB

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Trimeter

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Hexameter

Spondaic Monometer
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Burdening

Observing

Frightening

Stopping
14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what?
Simile

Synecdoche

Understatement

Hyperbole
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is very young and asleep

She is not yet born

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Agricultural abundance

Danger and extremes

Nature's wrath

The changing seasons
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Helen of Troy

Cleopatra

Queen Victoria

Aphrodite
18 Where is the poem set?
Dublin in 1916

The Tower of London

A battlefield during World War I

An Irish woodland
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Uncertain

Upset

Mistrustful

Disorganized
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Bluntness

Nobility

Tradition

Politeness
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution
23 What is a linnet?
A bird

A candle

A baby

A nightgown
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Generosity

Overstatement

Reason

Heat
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"let her think opinions are accursed."

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"though every face should scowl"

"May she be granted beauty"

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