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?
Repeated refrains

Short, clipped lines

Acrostics

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

1

4

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

AABAABABA

ABBAABBACDCCDC

It has no regular rhyme scheme
4 Which of the following is not a metaphorical motif in the poem?
Ships and navigation

Nature

Weapons and war

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

The ocean and land

The speaker and the fisherman

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

They are quatrains

They differ in length

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 species of prehistoric sea creature

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water
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?
Abhor

Absence

Abyss

Sunbeam
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"?
F

A

S

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

Simile

Anaphora

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

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is artificial

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

A crown worn by royalty

A marine ecosystem

A South American brand of truck
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?
A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object

A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?
They symbolize the speaker's wealth

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

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

Disgusted

Reverent

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

Fast

Careful

Strong
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?
Marriage

Human consumption

Animals and interspecies relationships

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

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Innocence and inexperience

Luxury and expense
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 wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood

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
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?
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

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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