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?
The Irish Literary Revival

First-generation Romanticism

Postmodernism

The New York School
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 stupid

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

Berries

Lanterns

Moths
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

1

2

3
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
S

E

I

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

Personification

Understatement

Simile
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Hopeful

Exhausted

Didactic

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

War

Love

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

Nature

Childhood

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

War

Passion

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

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"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)

Six lines (sestets)

Eight lines (octaves)

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

Dreamlike

Witty

Cozy
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 way that the forest is a site of magical events

The fact that Aengus becomes more sure of his success the longer his quest takes
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"And when white moths were on the wing"

"Because a fire was in my head"

"With apple blossom in her hair"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Dappled

Trout

Peeled

Rustled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin

The Irish god of love and youth

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

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

ABACDEDF

ABCBDEFE

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 claim that he will spend eternity with the woman

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

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity

The repeated evocation of the natural world
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Acorns

Ivy

Oranges

Apples
24 In what year was this work published?
1881

1906

2003

1897
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
Sailing to Byzantium

The Wind Among the Reeds

The Tower

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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