Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quizzes

Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quiz

1 Which of the following is a formal characteristic of the poem?

Acrostics

Short, clipped lines

Repeated refrains

Elaborate rhyme schemes
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?

4

3

1

7
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABAABABA

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABCBADCD

ABBAABBACDCCDC
4 Which of the following is not a metaphorical motif in the poem?

Weapons and war

Ships and navigation

Nature

Medicine and hospitals
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?

The ocean and land

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The speaker and the fisherman

The tuna and its prey
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?

They are sestets

They differ in length

They are couplets

They are quatrains
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?

To get rid of or move away from something

A species of prehistoric sea creature

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water
8 In which language was this poem originally written?

Italian

Portuguese

French

Spanish
9 What does the french word abîme, used in this poem, most closely translate to?

Sunbeam

Abyss

Abhor

Absence
10 What is the poem's meter?

Dactylic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Spondaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?

I

A

S

F
12 The phrase "fins fletched" is an example of which of the following?

Alliteration

Sibilance

Simile

Anaphora
13 What does the poet most likely want to convey with the word "varnished"?

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is strong

That the tuna is shiny
14 What does the word "catafalque" mean?

A South American brand of truck

A platform that holds a coffin

A crown worn by royalty

A marine ecosystem
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?

A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals

A poem written in the second person

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They symbolize the speaker's wealth
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?

Disgusted

Fearful

Reverent

Tired
18 Which of the following does NOT describe the tuna as the narrator imagines it?

Fast

Purposeful

Strong

Careful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

"once seed to sea-quake, /tidal wave..."

"your flanks and prow / black / and slippery..."

“only you / lived through / the sea's truth…”

"always renewed, / locked into the current..."
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?

Human consumption

Animals and interspecies relationships

Death

Marriage
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?

Cruelty and brutality

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Luxury and expense

Innocence and inexperience
22 What does the word "unfathomable" most closely mean when used in the poem?

Unbeatable

Unknowable

Inedible

Undesirable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

A tuna

A child

A fisherman

An unidentified person
24 Which of the following statements is true?

The speaker wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood

The speaker is afraid of the tuna, though less so by the poem's end

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

The speaker admires the tuna's range and depth of experiences
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The speaker's insistence that death is merely a new experience for the tuna

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