To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

1 What does the word "Unquiet" mean in the poem?
Bold

Restless

Lively

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?
Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter
3 What does "open-handed" mean in the poem's context?
Helpless

Transparent

Poor

Generous
4 What does the word "insult" most closely mean in the poem's context?
Retort

Defamation

Rude statement

Abuse
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"

"insult heaped upon him"

"given their children's children"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Apostrophe

Simile

Personification

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
Charles Parnell

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

Charles Parnell
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

Whether to look upon your monument

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Awning

Curtain

Sunglasses

Ghost
11 The poem as a whole is centered around which device?
Zeugma

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Belfast

Manchester

London

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Luxurious

Ghostly

Skinny

Angry
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Gossip

Wonder

Move quickly

Lie
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
L

T

N

G
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Tall

High-minded

Snobbish

Wealthy
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Patient

Wondering

Exhilarated

Pitying
18 Which literary device appears in the phrase "Sweeter emotion, working in their veins/Like gentle blood."
Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

Simile

Onomatopoeia
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Crowd-pleasing

Amount

Helpful

Selfish
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A political party

A mythological character

A holiday

A cemetery
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Yeats

Dublin's middle class

Parnell and Lane

The speaker
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
AABBCC

ABBCDD

ABBACDDC

ABACDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Situational irony

Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic

Verbal irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Public Sculpture

Castle

Autobiography

Crown

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