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 artworks

The daughter's anxieties

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,"

"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."

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Physical strength and size

Sublime beauty

Age and wisdom

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

Alliteration

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

Quintains

Quatrains

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

Jar lid

Blanket

Eyelid
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?
Artistry

Sublimity

Stability

Memorability
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"the storm is howling"

"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?
Iambic Pentameter

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

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

Stopping

Frightening

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

Simile

Synecdoche

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is very young and asleep

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is not yet born
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Danger and extremes

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance

The changing seasons
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Aphrodite

Cleopatra

Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I

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

Upset

Uncertain

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

Tradition

Bluntness

Nobility
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
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

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child
23 What is a linnet?
A candle

A baby

A nightgown

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"

"though every face should scowl"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

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