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 friends

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's artworks
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"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"

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

Sublime beauty

Physical strength and size

Rootedness in place
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 as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Sestets

Octets

Quintains

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

Eyelid

Jar lid

Curtain
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?
Sublimity

Memorability

Artistry

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

"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"

"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 Trimeter

Trochaic Hexameter

Spondaic Monometer

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

Frightening

Stopping

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

Simile

Hyperbole

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is very young and asleep

She is not yet born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Agricultural abundance

Nature's wrath

The changing seasons

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

Cleopatra

Queen Victoria

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?
Uncertain

Mistrustful

Upset

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

Nobility

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 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
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A mother with a sick child

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

Reason

Heat
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"

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