A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's friends

The daughter's thoughts
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"

"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"

"For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares."
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Sublime beauty

Rootedness in place

Age and wisdom

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

Assonance

Metonymy

Onomatopoeia
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

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

Quatrains

Quintains

Octets
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Eyelid

Blanket

Curtain

Jar lid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Monument

Prayer

Daydream

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

Artistry

Memorability

Sublimity
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"

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

"the storm is howling"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABACDCAB

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

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Pentameter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Burdening

Stopping

Observing

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

Synecdoche

Hyperbole

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?
The changing seasons

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance

Danger and extremes
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Aphrodite

Helen of Troy

Queen Victoria

Cleopatra
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

A battlefield during World War I

Dublin in 1916

The Tower of London
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Upset

Uncertain

Disorganized

Mistrustful
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Nobility

Bluntness

Politeness

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A mother with a sick child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

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

A nightgown

A baby

A bird
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Reason

Generosity

Heat

Overstatement
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"May she be granted beauty"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"though every face should scowl"

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