1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts The daughter's artworks The daughter's anxieties 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "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" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Sublime beauty Rootedness in place Physical strength and size Age and wisdom 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Metonymy Assonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quintains Quatrains Sestets Octets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Curtain Blanket Eyelid Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Monument Brook Prayer 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Sublimity Stability Memorability 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? ABBACDDC ABABCDCD AABBCDDC ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Pentameter Iambic Trimeter Spondaic Monometer 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Observing Stopping Frightening Burdening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Understatement Hyperbole Synecdoche Simile 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is very young and asleep She is not yet born She is the same age as her mother was when she was born 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? Nature's wrath The changing seasons Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Aphrodite Queen Victoria Helen of Troy Cleopatra 18 Where is the poem set? A battlefield during World War I Dublin in 1916 The Tower of London An Irish woodland 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Disorganized Mistrustful Upset Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Tradition Bluntness Nobility 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 mother with a sick child A version of W.B. Yeats himself A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child 23 What is a linnet? A bird A baby A nightgown A candle 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Overstatement Generosity Heat 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty" "let her think opinions are accursed." "The soul recovers radical innocence"
