Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Center

Tower

Muck
2 Who is Hades?
A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

An Egyptian pharaoh

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

Tercets

Octaves

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

Understood

Tricked

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

Sonnet

Villanelle

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

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

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Extremely human-like

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

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

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

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

An implement used in sewing and weaving
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Tent

Ghost

Night

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

Burn

Clean

Monkey
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The marbles

The moon

The bobbin

The domes
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Rivers to the underworld

Members of the royal court

Metal forgeries

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

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Spondaic pentameter

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

Simile

Personification

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

Hide

Blink

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

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic tetrameter
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 wormlike creature from Greek myth

A type of Byzantine church
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"Night resonance recedes"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"mire or blood"
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 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?
trance

bough

singe

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

Family

The spiritual world

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

4

3

5

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