The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Metonymy

Synecdoche

Simile
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
First-generation Romanticism

The Irish Literary Revival

The New York School

Postmodernism
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is angry

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is feeling stupid
4 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Moths

Scales

Berries

Lanterns
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

1

3

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

S

I

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

Simile

Understatement

Personification
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Despairing

Didactic

Hopeful

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

Love

War

Youth
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Nature

Aging

Childhood

Love
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Home

Danger

Passion

War
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"And pluck till time and times are done"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"

"It had become a glimmering girl"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Six lines (sestets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Two lines (couplets)

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 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 sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The way that the forest is a site of magical events
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"Because a fire was in my head"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"With apple blossom in her hair"

"And when white moths were on the wing"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Rustled

Trout

Peeled

Dappled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

The son of W.B. Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory

The Irish god of love and youth

An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDEDF

ABCBDEFE

ABBACDDE

ABABAB
21 Where is the poem set?
The Tower of London

Ireland, in a mythical past

A modern Irish city

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
The repeated evocation of the natural world

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

The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Oranges

Apples

Acorns

Ivy
24 In what year was this work published?
2003

1897

1906

1881
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
The Wind Among the Reeds

The Tower

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Sailing to Byzantium

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