1 What does the phrase "thing with feathers" refer to? A personification of hopelessness A songbird A weather balloon A falcon 2 What is the poem's central theme? The strength of happiness The endurance of hope The looming of dread The passage of time 3 What is one of the poem's major stylistic features Free verse Erasure Unusual use of the lowercase Slant rhyme 4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration? "I’ve heard it in the chillest land" "That perches in the soul" "And on the strangest Sea" "That kept so many warm" 5 What other poet was widely known for their use of slant rhyme? Elizabeth Bishop W.B. Yeats Sylvia Plath John Ashbery 6 What is the major conflict? The Civil War Dickinson writing the poem The speaker traversing the tundra The bird enduring a storm 7 What aspect of the bird embodies hope? Its migratory pattern Its flight Its song Its perching 8 What is slant rhyme? When two words rhyme and are italicized When two lines end in synonyms When two words sound similar but not the same When a rhyme occurs in an acrostic poem 9 What is foreshadowed in the poem's first stanza? The speaker's trip to the sea The speaker's turbulent personal life The bird completing its journey to South America The bird singing in spite of the storm 10 How many stanzas are in the poem? One Twelve Three Six 11 Where does the speaker specifically reference their relationship to the bird's song? The third stanza Throughout the poem The first stanza The second stanza 12 The line “'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is an example of which of the following? Understatement Similie Irony Personification 13 Which two words are an example of slant rhyme? "Flight" and "trip" "Flurry" and "scurry" "Sky" and "high" "Warm" and "storm" 14 What description best characterizes the tone of the poem? Gloomy Frustrated Frightened Optimistic 15 What do the lines "Yet - never - in Extremity, / It asked a crumb - of me" imply about the bird's song? That it is given selflessly That the speaker finds the bird's song irritating That the speaker only heard its song in extreme circumstances That the bird only sings when its hungry 16 What does the bird's survival of the storm symbolize? Worrying about nature's unpredictability The strength of hope The depth of sorrow Situations always improving 17 What natural event puts the bird's endurance to the test? An earthquake A forest fire A bolt of lightning A powerful wind 18 When was the poem published? 1900 1891 1981 1863 19 Where is the poem set? In a coastal town In nature, during stormy conditions In Lexington, Kentucky In Boston, Massachusetts 20 What is the meaning of the word "gale" in the poem? Heavy rain A summer breeze A powerful wind A brief snowstorm 21 What does slant rhyme allow the writer to do? Break up the punctuation of a line Write a poem with unique alignment Maintain a rhyme scheme without needing two words to have the same ending or sound Change verb tense between lines 22 Who is the protagonist of the poem The speaker The wind An unnamed poet The bird 23 The phrase "never stops - at all" refers to which of the following? The bird's song The speaker's well-being The speaker's admiration of the bird The bird's journey across the ocean 24 Which of the following stylistic elements does Dickinson NOT make use of in the poem? Parentheses Dashes Iambic tetrameter Iambic trimeter 25 What type of stanzas does Dickinson use in the poem? Quatrains Sestets Octaves Rhyming couplets
