A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

1 What do the linnets represent?
The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's artworks

The daughter's friends

The daughter's thoughts
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"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"

"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

Rootedness in place

Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

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

Quintains

Octets

Quatrains
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Jar lid

Curtain

Eyelid

Blanket
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?
Sublimity

Artistry

Memorability

Stability
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"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"

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

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

ABBACDDC

AABBCDDC

ABABCDCD
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

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

Observing

Stopping

Burdening
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 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?
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?
Helen of Troy

Cleopatra

Aphrodite

Queen Victoria
18 Where is the poem set?
A battlefield during World War I

An Irish woodland

The Tower of London

Dublin in 1916
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Uncertain

Upset

Disorganized

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

Tradition

Nobility

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

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
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

A mother with a sick child
23 What is a linnet?
A bird

A baby

A candle

A nightgown
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Reason

Overstatement

Generosity

Heat
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"May she be granted beauty"

"though every face should scowl"

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