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 friends

The daughter's anxieties

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,"

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

"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?
Physical strength and size

Age and wisdom

Sublime beauty

Rootedness in place
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Alliteration

Metonymy

Assonance

Onomatopoeia
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
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

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Sestets

Quatrains

Octets

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

Eyelid

Curtain

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

Prayer

Brook

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

Stability

Memorability

Sublimity
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"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"

"the storm is howling"

"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDCAB

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Pentameter

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Trimeter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Stopping

Observing

Frightening

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

Synecdoche

Simile

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is very young and asleep

She is not yet born
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?
Cleopatra

Helen of Troy

Queen Victoria

Aphrodite
18 Where is the poem set?
A battlefield during World War I

An Irish woodland

The Tower of London

Dublin in 1916
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Uncertain

Disorganized

Mistrustful

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

Politeness

Tradition

Nobility
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth

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
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child
23 What is a linnet?
A baby

A bird

A candle

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

Heat

Overstatement

Reason
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"though every face should scowl"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"May she be granted beauty"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

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