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?

4

3

1

7
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABAABABA

ABBAABBACDCCDC

ABCBADCD

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

Nature

Ships and navigation

Medicine and hospitals

Weapons and war
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 differ in length

They are quatrains

They are couplets
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?

A species of prehistoric sea creature

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

To get rid of or move away from something

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

French

Portuguese

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

Spondaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?

A

S

F

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

Simile

Sibilance

Alliteration

Anaphora
13 What does the poet most likely want to convey with the word "varnished"?

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is strong

That the tuna is artificial

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

A crown worn by royalty

A marine ecosystem

A platform that holds a coffin

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

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

A poem written in the second person
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They symbolize the speaker's wealth

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They bring taste-based imagery to the work
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?

Fast

Careful

Strong

Purposeful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

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

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

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

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

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

Unknowable

Undesirable

Unbeatable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

An unidentified person

A fisherman

A tuna

A child
24 Which of the following statements is true?

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

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
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

The speaker's insistence that death is merely a new experience for the tuna

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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