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Echo Quiz

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

sextilla

sestina

quatrain

villanelle
2 A sextilla has how many stanzas?

3

6

4

5
3 What are the historical origins of the sextilla

medieval British

modern English

medieval Spanish

medieval French
4 In a sextilla, how many line are in a stanza?

3

5

6

4
5 What is the rhyme scheme of a sextilla?

ABCBAB

ABCBCA

ABABCC

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

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Imagery

Anaphora
7 In what year was "Echo" published?

1867

1863

1862

1855
8 "Speaking silence" is an example of what type of irony?

assonance

anaphora

litotes

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

litotes

anaphora

assonance

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

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Songs of Innocence

Leaves of Grass

Paradise Lost
11 "Echo" references which other literary work?

The Cantos

Leaves of Grass

Goblin Market

Paradise Lost
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?

Victorian

Medieval

Romantic

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

death, life

life, memory

memory, dreams

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

Allegory

allusion

motif

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

9

7

6

8
17 Memory is compared to what?

a stream

eyes

brightness

the sun
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 ______.

irony

simile

alliteration

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

bright

loud

happy

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

assonance

metonymy

synecdoche

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

pleading

bargaining

direct address

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

repeats endlessly

can be heard

is loud

fades with time
24 Sleep gets conflated with death in which other piece of literature?

King Lear

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

Frozen
25 The speaker is the poem's ________.

Protagonist

Antagonist

Topic

Subject

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