The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor

Synecdoche
2 This poem is representative of which movement?

The New York School

The Irish Literary Revival

First-generation Romanticism

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

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is angry
4 What is the poem's meter?

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

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

Lanterns

Scales

Moths

Berries
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?

1

2

4

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

E

I

K

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

Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Understatement
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?

Hopeful

Despairing

Didactic

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

War

Youth

Love

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

Love

Aging

Nature

Childhood
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?

Passion

Danger

War

Home
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"And pluck till time and times are done"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?

Eight lines (octaves)

Six lines (sestets)

Four lines (quatrains)

Two lines (couplets)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?

Witty

Cozy

Dreamlike

Glamorous
16 Which is an instance of irony?

The way that the forest is a site of magical events

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

The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

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?

"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"Because a fire was in my head"

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

Peeled

Rustled

Trout

Dappled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?

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

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

The Irish god of love and youth

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

ABABAB

ABBACDDE

ABCBDEFE

ABACDEDF
21 Where is the poem set?

Ireland, in a mythical past

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

A modern Irish city

The Tower of London
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity

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

Oranges

Ivy

Apples

Acorns
24 In what year was this work published?

1881

2003

1906

1897
25 In which collection did this work first appear?

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Sailing to Byzantium

The Wind Among the Reeds

The Tower

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