Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Tower

Ocean

Center

Muck
2 Who is Hades?

The Greek god of the underworld

An Egyptian pharaoh

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?

Tercets

Sestets

Octaves

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

Understood

Possessed

Tricked

Created
5 What is the poem's form?

It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina

Villanelle

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

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

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Extremely human-like

Very large

Animal-like and instinctive
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic 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 multi-story Ottoman mansion

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?

Night

Curtain

Ghost

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

Monkey

Clean

Burn

Opera
12 Which objects are personified in this work?

The domes

The bobbin

The marbles

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

Metal forgeries

Members of the royal court

Narrow alleyways

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

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC

ABABCBCDC

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

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

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

Personification

Metaphor

Metonymy

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

Blink

Equivocate

Hide

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

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A type of Byzantine church

A wormlike creature from Greek myth

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?

"mire or blood"

"Night resonance recedes"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"cannot singe a sleeve"
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 Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?

Greek myth

Celtic legend

Ottoman history

Easter Orthodox theology
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?

none of these are onomatopoetic

trance

singe

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

The spiritual world

The physical world

Family

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

4

5

3

2

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