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?
Short, clipped lines

Repeated refrains

Acrostics

Elaborate rhyme schemes
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?
3

4

1

7
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBAABBACDCCDC

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABCBADCD

AABAABABA
4 Which of the following is not a metaphorical motif in the poem?
Weapons and war

Medicine and hospitals

Ships and navigation

Nature
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?
The outdoor market and the supermarket

The speaker and the fisherman

The tuna and its prey

The ocean and land
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?
They differ in length

They are sestets

They are couplets

They are quatrains
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?
A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

To get rid of or move away from something

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

French

Italian

Spanish
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?
It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter

Spondaic hexameter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?
A

I

S

F
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 shiny

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is strong
14 What does the word "catafalque" mean?
A platform that holds a coffin

A crown worn by royalty

A South American brand of truck

A marine ecosystem
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?
A poem written in the second person

A poem persuading an addressee

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

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 bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer a contrast with the tuna

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

Reverent

Tired

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

Fast

Strong

Careful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?
"once seed to sea-quake, /tidal wave..."

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

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

“only you / lived through / the sea's truth…”
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?
Human consumption

Marriage

Animals and interspecies relationships

Death
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?
Cruelty and brutality

Innocence and inexperience

Luxury and expense

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness
22 What does the word "unfathomable" most closely mean when used in the poem?
Inedible

Undesirable

Unknowable

Unbeatable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?
An unidentified person

A fisherman

A child

A tuna
24 Which of the following statements is true?
The speaker admires the tuna's range and depth of experiences

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

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 anger at the tuna

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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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