To a Shade Quizzes

You need to log in to continue

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Restless

Bold

Loud

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Poor

Transparent

Generous

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

Defamation

Retort

Rude statement

Abuse
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?

"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?

Simile

Understatement

Apostrophe

Personification
7 Who is the speaker?

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

Maud Gonne

James Joyce

Charles Parnell

William Gladstone
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?

Whether to look upon your monument

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:
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

Anaphora

Apostrophe
12 In which city is the poem set?

Dublin

Belfast

London

Manchester
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Angry

Luxurious

Ghostly

Skinny
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Lie

Wonder

Gossip

Move quickly
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?

L

N

G

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

High-minded

Snobbish

Wealthy

Tall
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?

Exhilarated

Patient

Pitying

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

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Simile
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?

Amount

Helpful

Crowd-pleasing

Selfish
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?

A mythological character

A cemetery

A political party

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

Parnell and Lane

Yeats

Dublin's middle class

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

ABBCDD

AABBCC

ABBACDDC

ABACDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

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

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?

Verbal irony

Situational irony

The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?

Crown

Castle

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

To a Shade Questions and Answers

The Question and Answer section for To a Shade is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.

Ask Your Own Question

Study Guide for To a Shade

To a Shade study guide contains a biography of William Butler Yeats, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Read the Study Guide for To a Shade…