1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's artworks The daughter's anxieties The daughter's thoughts The daughter's friends 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "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? Age and wisdom Sublime beauty Physical strength and size Rootedness in place 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 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? Octets Quintains Quatrains Sestets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Curtain Eyelid Blanket Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Brook Prayer Monument 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Sublimity Memorability Artistry 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "the storm is howling" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "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? AABBCDDC ABBACDDC ABACDCAB ABABCDCD 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Spondaic Monometer Iambic Pentameter Iambic Trimeter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Observing Stopping Burdening Frightening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Simile Understatement Synecdoche Hyperbole 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 not yet born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? The changing seasons Nature's wrath Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Helen of Troy Queen Victoria Cleopatra Aphrodite 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London Dublin in 1916 An Irish woodland A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Mistrustful Upset Uncertain Disorganized 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Bluntness Tradition Nobility 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 hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A mother with a sick child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A version of W.B. Yeats himself A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child 23 What is a linnet? A bird A candle A nightgown A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Heat Reason Generosity Overstatement 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty" "though every face should scowl" "The soul recovers radical innocence"
