Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Muck

Tower

Center
2 Who is Hades?
The Greek god of the underworld

An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Octaves

Sestets

Tercets

Quintains
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Understood

Tricked

Created

Possessed
5 What is the poem's form?
It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina

Sonnet

Villanelle
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Extremely human-like

Animal-like and instinctive

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Very large
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
An implement used in sewing and weaving

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

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Curtain

Tent

Ghost

Night
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Clean

Burn

Monkey

Opera
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The moon

The bobbin

The marbles

The domes
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Metal forgeries

Rivers to the underworld

Members of the royal court

Narrow alleyways
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

ABABCBCDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Spondaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Metonymy

Personification

Metaphor

Simile
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Hide

Equivocate

Dart

Blink
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A type of Byzantine church

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

"moonlit dome disdains"

"Night resonance recedes"

"cannot singe a sleeve"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

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?
Celtic legend

Easter Orthodox theology

Greek myth

Ottoman history
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
singe

trance

bough

none of these are onomatopoetic
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
Family

The physical world

War

The spiritual world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
2

3

4

5

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