The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Metonymy

Metaphor

Synecdoche
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
The Irish Literary Revival

The New York School

Postmodernism

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 feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

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

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

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

Scales

Berries

Moths
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
2

4

1

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

S

E

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

Understatement

Metaphor

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

Exhausted

Hopeful

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

Poetry

Love

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

Childhood

Nature

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

War

Home

Danger
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"And pluck till time and times are done"

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"

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

Two lines (couplets)

Four lines (quatrains)

Six lines (sestets)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Glamorous

Cozy

Dreamlike

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

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

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Because a fire was in my head"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

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

Dappled

Trout

Rustled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
The Irish god of love and youth

An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin

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

ABABAB

ABACDEDF

ABCBDEFE
21 Where is the poem set?
Ireland, in a mythical past

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

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 repeated evocation of the natural world

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

Oranges

Apples

Acorns
24 In what year was this work published?
1897

1906

2003

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

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Sailing to Byzantium

The Tower

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