Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?

Ocean

Tower

Muck

Center
2 Who is Hades?

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

An Egyptian pharaoh

The Greek god of the underworld
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?

Sestets

Quintains

Tercets

Octaves
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?

Created

Tricked

Possessed

Understood
5 What is the poem's form?

Sonnet

Villanelle

It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?

Animal-like and instinctive

Very large

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Extremely human-like
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

A multi-story Ottoman mansion
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?

Tent

Night

Ghost

Curtain
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?

Burn

Monkey

Opera

Clean
12 Which objects are personified in this work?

The moon

The marbles

The domes

The bobbin
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?

Metal forgeries

Narrow alleyways

Members of the royal court

Rivers to the underworld
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?

AABBCDDC

ABABCBCDC

ABABCDCD

ABBACDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Spondaic pentameter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?

Simile

Metonymy

Personification

Metaphor
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?

Blink

Equivocate

Dart

Hide
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A type of Byzantine church

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A wormlike creature from Greek myth
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?

"Night resonance recedes"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"mire or blood"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?

It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?

Easter Orthodox theology

Ottoman history

Greek myth

Celtic legend
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?

none of these are onomatopoetic

trance

bough

singe
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?

The physical world

The spiritual world

Family

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

2

4

3

5

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