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Echo Quiz

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

sestina

quatrain

villanelle

sextilla
2 A sextilla has how many stanzas?

4

5

3

6
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?

ABCBCA

ABABCC

AABBCC

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

Alliteration

Anaphora

Hyperbole

Imagery
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 _________.

alliteration

litotes

assonance

anaphora
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?

Paradise Lost

The Cantos

Goblin Market

Leaves of Grass
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

Victorian

Medieval

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

memory, dreams

life, memory

death, life

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

symbol

allusion

motif

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

9

6

8

7
17 Memory is compared to what?

eyes

the sun

a stream

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

comparison

metaphor

simile

litotes
19 Oxymoron is a type of ______.

irony

simile

alliteration

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

bright

loud

longing

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

assonance

metonymy

alliteration

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

direct address

bargaining

rhetoric

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

can be heard

repeats endlessly

fades with time

is loud
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 ________.

Topic

Protagonist

Subject

Antagonist

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