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 friends

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's artworks
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"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"

"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,"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size

Rootedness in place

Sublime beauty
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Metonymy

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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 defined by what is within rather than by appearances

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

Quintains

Sestets

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

Curtain

Blanket

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

Artistry

Memorability
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"

"the storm is howling"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

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

ABACDCAB

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Trimeter

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

Frightening

Stopping

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is not yet born

She is very young and asleep

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
The changing seasons

Danger and extremes

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Cleopatra

Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy

Aphrodite
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

The Tower of London

Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Disorganized

Uncertain

Mistrustful

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

Politeness

Bluntness

Nobility
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

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

A nightgown

A bird

A baby
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Overstatement

Generosity

Reason

Heat
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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