The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

1 The phrase "moth-like stars" is an instance of what?
Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy

Synecdoche
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
Postmodernism

The Irish Literary Revival

The New York School

First-generation Romanticism
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is angry

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas
4 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Scales

Moths

Lanterns

Berries
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

3

4

2
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
S

I

E

K
8 The phrase "The golden apples of the sun" is an instance of what?
Simile

Understatement

Personification

Metaphor
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Exhausted

Despairing

Hopeful

Didactic
10 Which of the following is NOT associated with Aengus?
Poetry

Youth

Love

War
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Childhood

Love

Nature

Aging
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Passion

Home

Danger

War
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"It had become a glimmering girl"

"And pluck till time and times are done"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Two lines (couplets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Six lines (sestets)

Four lines (quatrains)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Witty

Cozy

Glamorous

Dreamlike
16 Which is an instance of irony?
The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it

The fact that Aengus becomes more sure of his success the longer his quest takes

The way that the forest is a site of magical events
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"And when white moths were on the wing"

"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Because a fire was in my head"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Dappled

Rustled

Peeled

Trout
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
The son of W.B. Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory

An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin

The Irish god of love and youth

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDEDF

ABCBDEFE

ABBACDDE

ABABAB
21 Where is the poem set?
A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Ireland, in a mythical past

The Tower of London

A modern Irish city
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity

The speaker's ease in using natural materials to make the fishing pole

The repeated evocation of the natural world

The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Ivy

Acorns

Oranges

Apples
24 In what year was this work published?
1881

1906

1897

2003
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Sailing to Byzantium

The Tower

The Wind Among the Reeds

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