This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat

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

Apples

The kitchen sink

The icebox

Oranges
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Shakespeare's love sonnets

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?

A prominent inclusion of dashes

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay

Complex metaphors
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Three

Eighteen

Six
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

The speaker's love for his wife

Religious guilt

Farm labor

Everyday pleasures
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"

"so sweet"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Imagist poetry

Erasure poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

A doctor's office

The speaker's farm

The speaker's kitchen

An orchard
10 What is the poem's form and meter?

The poem is a villanelle.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is a sonnet.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?

Peaches

Plums

Pears

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

It refers to an ice chest.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun

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

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

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

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains

Monostiches
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Envy

Regret

Frustration

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

Time

Taste

Communication

Guilt
19 When was the poem published?

1983

1988

1933

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

Jennifer O'Grady

All of the following

Tony Hoagland

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

Sweet

Delicious

Cold

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

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To show the lingering memory it left behind
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?

"Rocket Fuel"

"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Lift Off"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

Moths emerging from cocoons

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?

Opaque

Mysterious

Baroque

Direct

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