1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's anxieties The daughter's thoughts The daughter's friends The daughter's artworks 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "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" "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Sublime beauty Age and wisdom Physical strength and size Rootedness in place 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Metonymy Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance 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? Quatrains Octets Quintains Sestets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Blanket Curtain Jar lid Eyelid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Brook Monument Prayer 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Artistry Memorability Sublimity 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 AABBCDDC ABABCDCD ABBACDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Spondaic Monometer Iambic Pentameter 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? Hyperbole Understatement Synecdoche Simile 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is very young and asleep 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? The changing seasons Agricultural abundance Nature's wrath Danger and extremes 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Helen of Troy Aphrodite Cleopatra Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London An Irish woodland Dublin in 1916 A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Upset Disorganized Uncertain Mistrustful 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Nobility Bluntness Tradition Politeness 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? 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 The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth 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 candle A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Generosity Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence"
