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

Elaborate rhyme schemes

Acrostics
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

1

3

7
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?
Weapons and war

Ships and navigation

Medicine and hospitals

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

The ocean and land

The tuna and its prey

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

They are quatrains

They are couplets

They differ in length
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?
To get rid of or move away from something

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

A species of prehistoric sea creature

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century
8 In which language was this poem originally written?
French

Spanish

Italian

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

Absence

Sunbeam

Abyss
10 What is the poem's meter?
Spondaic hexameter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

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

F

I

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

Anaphora

Alliteration

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

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is elusive
14 What does the word "catafalque" mean?
A marine ecosystem

A crown worn by royalty

A platform that holds a coffin

A South American brand of truck
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 offer a contrast with the tuna

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They symbolize the speaker's wealth

They bring taste-based imagery to the work
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?
Reverent

Disgusted

Fearful

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

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

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

"once seed to sea-quake, /tidal wave..."
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?
Death

Human consumption

Marriage

Animals and interspecies relationships
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?
Innocence and inexperience

Luxury and expense

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Cruelty and brutality
22 What does the word "unfathomable" most closely mean when used in the poem?
Unbeatable

Undesirable

Inedible

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

A child

An unidentified person

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

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

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?
The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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

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