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

7

1
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCBADCD

It has no regular rhyme scheme

AABAABABA

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

Medicine and hospitals

Weapons and war

Ships and navigation
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?
The speaker and the fisherman

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The ocean and land

The tuna and its prey
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?
They differ in length

They are quatrains

They are sestets

They are couplets
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?
A species of prehistoric sea creature

To get rid of or move away from something

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century
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?
Sunbeam

Absence

Abhor

Abyss
10 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter

Spondaic hexameter

It has no regular meter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?
I

S

F

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

Anaphora

Simile

Sibilance
13 What does the poet most likely want to convey with the word "varnished"?
That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is strong
14 What does the word "catafalque" mean?
A crown worn by royalty

A South American brand of truck

A marine ecosystem

A platform that holds a coffin
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?
A poem praising or addressing an individual or object

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person

A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals
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 symbolize the speaker's wealth

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?
Fearful

Disgusted

Tired

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

Careful

Strong

Fast
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

Death

Animals and interspecies relationships

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?
Inedible

Unbeatable

Unknowable

Undesirable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?
A child

A tuna

An unidentified person

A fisherman
24 Which of the following statements is true?
The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

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

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

The speaker wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?
The speaker's insistence that death is merely a new experience for the tuna

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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