1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's friends The daughter's anxieties The daughter's thoughts 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," "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." "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? Physical strength and size Rootedness in place Age and wisdom Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Alliteration Metonymy Onomatopoeia Assonance 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? 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 Beauty is something that increases with age and experience 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Octets Sestets Quintains Quatrains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Blanket Eyelid Curtain Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Monument Brook Daydream 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? "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" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBACDDC ABACDCAB ABABCDCD AABBCDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Iambic Pentameter Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Spondaic Monometer 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Frightening Burdening Observing Stopping 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Simile Hyperbole Understatement Synecdoche 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 The changing seasons Nature's wrath Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Aphrodite Queen Victoria Cleopatra Helen of Troy 18 Where is the poem set? Dublin in 1916 An Irish woodland The Tower of London A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Mistrustful Upset Uncertain Disorganized 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Tradition Politeness Bluntness 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 urges his daughter to avoid extremes 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 man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A version of W.B. Yeats himself A mother with a sick child 23 What is a linnet? A candle A baby A nightgown A bird 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Generosity Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "though every face should scowl" "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence"
