This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?

Happy and upbeat

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp

Dark and moody
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

The icebox

The kitchen sink

Oranges

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Shakespeare's love sonnets
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay

Complex metaphors

The use of enjambment
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Six

Eighteen

Four

Three
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

Religious guilt

Everyday pleasures

Farm labor

The speaker's love for his wife
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Erasure poetry

War epic

Imagist poetry

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

The speaker's farm

The speaker's kitchen

An orchard

A doctor's office
10 What is the poem's form and meter?

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is written in free verse.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?

Apples

Pears

Plums

Peaches
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It refers to an ice chest.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Octaves

Quatrains

Monostiches

Quintains
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Happiness

Envy

Regret

Frustration
18 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Taste

Time

Communication

Guilt
19 When was the poem published?

1983

1933

1988

1938
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins

Tony Hoagland

All of the following
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?

Delicious

Cold

Saccharine

Sweet
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To describe their unremarkable flavor
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?

"Lift Off"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Jet"

"Booster Rockets"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths emerging from cocoons
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?

Direct

Mysterious

Opaque

Baroque

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