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Echo Quiz

1 "Echo" is a type of poem called a ________.

sextilla

villanelle

sestina

quatrain
2 A sextilla has how many stanzas?

5

6

4

3
3 What are the historical origins of the sextilla

medieval British

medieval Spanish

medieval French

modern English
4 In a sextilla, how many line are in a stanza?

5

3

6

4
5 What is the rhyme scheme of a sextilla?

ABCBCA

ABCBAB

AABBCC

ABABCC
6 In "Echo," the repetition of the phrase "come to me" is an example of ___________.

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Imagery

Anaphora
7 In what year was "Echo" published?

1867

1855

1863

1862
8 "Speaking silence" is an example of what type of irony?

oxymoron

litotes

anaphora

assonance
9 The repetition of "s" in "speaking silence" is called _________.

litotes

assonance

anaphora

alliteration
10 What was the name of the volume in which "Echo" was published?

Paradise Lost

Songs of Innocence

Leaves of Grass

Goblin Market and Other Poems
11 "Echo" references which other literary work?

Paradise Lost

The Cantos

Leaves of Grass

Goblin Market
12 Christina Rossetti wrote at the end of which literary period?

Victorian

Romantic

Renaissance

Medieval
13 Christina Rossetti is said to belong to which literary period?

Renaissance

Medieval

Romantic

Victorian
14 The speaker of the poem chooses _____ over ______.

death, life

memory, dreams

dreams, memory

life, memory
15 Dreaming functions as what in the poem?

Allegory

symbol

motif

allusion
16 A sextilla conventionally has how many syllables per line?

9

8

6

7
17 Memory is compared to what?

the sun

a stream

brightness

eyes
18 "Cheeks and eyes as bright as sun shining on a stream" is an example of ______

simile

litotes

comparison

metaphor
19 Oxymoron is a type of ______.

metaphor

alliteration

irony

simile
20 The tone of the poem can be best described as ______.

happy

longing

bright

loud
21 "Pulse for pulse, breath for breath" is an example of ________.

alliteration

synecdoche

metonymy

assonance
22 "Come to me" is a form of _____

direct address

pleading

rhetoric

bargaining
23 An echo is like a memory because it _______.

repeats endlessly

fades with time

is loud

can be heard
24 Sleep gets conflated with death in which other piece of literature?

King Lear

Macbeth

Frozen

Romeo and Juliet
25 The speaker is the poem's ________.

Antagonist

Topic

Protagonist

Subject

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