A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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

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

"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"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Sublime beauty

Physical strength and size

Age and wisdom

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

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

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

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Octets

Quatrains

Quintains

Sestets
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Curtain

Eyelid

Jar lid

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

Monument

Brook

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

"the storm is howling"

"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

AABBCDDC

ABABCDCD

ABACDCAB
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

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

Stopping

Burdening

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Synecdoche
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 very young and asleep

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is not yet born
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance

The changing seasons

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

Queen Victoria

Aphrodite

Helen of Troy
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?
Uncertain

Disorganized

Upset

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

Politeness

Nobility

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

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

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 man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A mother with a sick child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself
23 What is a linnet?
A baby

A bird

A nightgown

A candle
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Heat

Overstatement

Generosity

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

"though every face should scowl"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

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