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

Acrostics

Repeated refrains

Elaborate rhyme schemes
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

4

3

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

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABBAABBACDCCDC

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

Ships and navigation

Medicine and hospitals

Nature
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?
The ocean and land

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The tuna and its prey

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

They differ in length

They are sestets

They are quatrains
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

French

Portuguese

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

Sunbeam

Abyss

Abhor
10 What is the poem's meter?
Dactylic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

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

F

I

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

Alliteration

Sibilance

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 strong

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

A marine ecosystem

A crown worn by royalty

A South American brand of truck
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?
A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?
They bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They offer a contrast with the tuna

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

Fearful

Disgusted

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

Fast

Careful

Purposeful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?
"always renewed, / locked into the current..."

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

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

"your flanks and prow / black / and slippery..."
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?
Marriage

Animals and interspecies relationships

Death

Human consumption
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?
Unbeatable

Undesirable

Unknowable

Inedible
23 Who is the poem's speaker?
A fisherman

An unidentified person

A tuna

A child
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 wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate
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 merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

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