This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?

Dark and moody

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp

Happy and upbeat
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Oranges

The kitchen sink

The icebox

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

Bashō's haikus about autumn

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

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

Complex metaphors

The use of enjambment

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Four

Eighteen

Six

Three
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

The speaker's love for his wife

Everyday pleasures

Religious guilt

Farm labor
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"you were probably"

"and which"

"so sweet"

"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?

An orchard

The speaker's kitchen

The speaker's farm

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 written in free verse.

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

Plums

Apples

Peaches

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

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

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

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's marital struggles

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

In the second stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the third stanza

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

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

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Quintains

Monostiches
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Envy

Happiness

Frustration

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

Guilt

Taste

Time

Communication
19 When was the poem published?

1933

1983

1988

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

Tony Hoagland

Jennifer O'Grady

All of the following

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

Cold

Saccharine

Sweet

Delicious
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 describe their unremarkable flavor

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

"Booster Rockets"

"Lift Off"

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

The speaker's fear of the dark

A mother–daughter relationship

Moths emerging from cocoons

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

Opaque

Baroque

Mysterious

Direct

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