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

Repeated refrains

Elaborate rhyme schemes

Short, clipped lines
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?

1

7

3

4
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABBAABBACDCCDC

AABAABABA

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

Medicine and hospitals

Ships and navigation

Nature

Weapons and war
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?

The tuna and its prey

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The ocean and land

The speaker and the fisherman
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?

They are sestets

They differ in length

They are quatrains

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

To get rid of or move away from something

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

A species of prehistoric sea creature
8 In which language was this poem originally written?

Spanish

Italian

French

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

Abhor

Absence

Abyss

Sunbeam
10 What is the poem's meter?

Spondaic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

It has no regular meter

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

A

I

F

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

Simile

Sibilance

Alliteration

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

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is elusive

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

A South American brand of truck

A marine ecosystem

A crown worn by royalty

A platform that holds a coffin
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?

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

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person

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

They symbolize the speaker's wealth

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer a contrast with the tuna
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?

Tired

Reverent

Disgusted

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

Careful

Fast

Strong

Purposeful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

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

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

"always renewed, / locked into the current..."

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

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Cruelty and brutality

Innocence and inexperience

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

Inedible

Unbeatable

Undesirable

Unknowable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

A tuna

A child

An unidentified person

A fisherman
24 Which of the following statements is true?

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

The speaker admires the tuna's range and depth of experiences

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

The speaker wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

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

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