A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's friends
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"

"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."
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size

Rootedness in place

Sublime beauty
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Assonance

Metonymy

Alliteration

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

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

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

Quatrains

Sestets

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

Eyelid

Blanket

Jar lid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Brook

Prayer

Daydream

Monument
9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life?
Memorability

Stability

Sublimity

Artistry
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"the storm is howling"

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

ABABCDCD

ABBACDDC

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

Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

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

Frightening

Observing

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

Synecdoche

Hyperbole

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

She is not yet born

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

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
The changing seasons

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance

Danger and extremes
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy

Aphrodite

Cleopatra
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

Nobility

Politeness

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

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 mother with a sick child

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution
23 What is a linnet?
A bird

A nightgown

A baby

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

Reason

Generosity

Heat
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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