To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Loud

Restless
2 What is this poem's meter?
Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Generous

Poor

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

Abuse

Defamation

Rude statement
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"foul mouth"

"when the day is spent"

"given their children's children"

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

Simile

Personification

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

A gallerist

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

Maud Gonne

James Joyce

Charles Parnell
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

The pack upon him.

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?
Curtain

Awning

Sunglasses

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

Apostrophe

End rhyme

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Belfast

Manchester

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

Skinny

Angry

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Lie

Wonder

Move quickly

Gossip
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
G

L

T

N
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Wealthy

High-minded

Tall

Snobbish
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Wondering

Exhilarated

Patient

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

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing
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 cemetery

A holiday

A mythological character
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Dublin's middle class

The speaker

Yeats

Parnell and Lane
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBCDD

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABACDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

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

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Castle

Crown

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

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