This Is My Letter to the World Quizzes

This Is My Letter to the World Quiz

1 Which adjectives best describes the tone of poem?
Pensive and uncertain

Heated and contentious

Relaxed and serene

Cool and removed
2 What image does the speaker open the poem with?
A letter

Hands

The sun

A quill
3 What is the major conflict of the poem?
The speaker attempting to overcome isolation and social judgement

The speaker attempting to avoid a large party

The speaking feeling lost in nature

The speaker feeling oppressed by her family
4 From what source does the speaker claim to have learned the most?
Farming

Amherst

Nature

Boston
5 What word does the speaker NOT attach to nature?
Judge

News

Message

Majesty
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The simple News that Nature told—"

"This is my letter to the World"

"Judge tenderly—of Me"

"Her Message is committed"
7 What is the genre of the poem?
Aubade

Lyric poetry

War epic

Epitaph
8 When does the poem's climax occur?
When the speaker asks her countrymen to judge her tenderly.

When the speaker declares her intention to write a letter.

When the speaker feels accepted in her community.

When the speaker describes nature.
9 What is the meter of the poem?
The poem uses lines of dactylic hexameter.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem alternates between iambic pentameter and hexameter.

The poem alternates between lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
10 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAC

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA
11 When was the poem first published?
1889

1890

1891

1980
12 What is one-sided correspondence a metaphor for in the poem?
Loneliness

Determination

Poetry

Music
13 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eight

Two

Four

Seven
14 What article of clothing was Dickinson frequently seen wearing in her hometown?
A red knit shawl

A yellow bonnet

A black cloak

A white cotton dress
15 What was one of Dickinson's major hobbies?
Gardening

Woodworking

Birdwatching

Stargazing
16 What does the term "countrymen" refer to in the poem?
The authors that the speaker admires

The speaker's family

The founding fathers

The speaker's social circle
17 Which member of Dickinson's family tried to shield her privacy?
Her father Edward

Her mother Emily

Her sister Lavinia

Her brother Austin
18 What town did Dickinson reside in?
Amherst

Worcester

Plymouth

Boston
19 How does the speaker personify nature?
By envisioning it as a close friend

By using the phrase "mother nature"

By comparing it to a guest at a party

By giving it the feminine possessive pronoun "Her"
20 What does the word "majesty" mean?
Hierarchy

Calm

Stateliness

Gaudiness
21 Who does the speaker address in this poem?
Her siblings

Louisa May Alcott

Her countrymen

Henry David Thoreau
22 When did Dickinson begin to withdraw from her social circle?
1867

1860

1891

1806
23 What does the speaker hope to gain from writing this poem?
Material wealth

Religious transcendence

The understanding of the world around her

Fame
24 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Nathaniel Hawthrone

Emily Dickinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The population of Massachusetts
25 How does the speaker characterize herself?
Calm and embracing of her town's social life

Angry and frustrated with the world around her

Happy and uncurious

Lonely and fascinated by nature

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