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 anxieties

The daughter's artworks
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"

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

Age and wisdom

Rootedness in place

Physical strength and size
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 defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Sestets

Octets

Quintains

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

Eyelid

Jar lid

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

Monument

Daydream

Brook
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?
"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"

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

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"the storm is howling"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBACDDC

AABBCDDC

ABABCDCD

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

Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Observing

Stopping

Frightening

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

Understatement

Hyperbole

Synecdoche
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is not yet born

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
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Nature's wrath

Danger and extremes

Agricultural abundance

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

Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy

Cleopatra
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?
Mistrustful

Upset

Disorganized

Uncertain
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Nobility

Politeness

Bluntness

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

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A mother with a sick child

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

A baby

A bird

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

Reason

Overstatement

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

"May she be granted beauty"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

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