To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Bold

Restless

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

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

Poor

Helpless

Transparent

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

Rude statement

Abuse

Defamation

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

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?

Apostrophe

Simile

Personification

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

Charles Parnell

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

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

Whether to look upon your monument

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

The pack upon him.

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

Sunglasses

Curtain

Ghost

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

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Zeugma

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?

London

Dublin

Belfast

Manchester
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Angry

Luxurious

Skinny

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Wonder

Move quickly

Gossip

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

T

G

L

N
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Tall

Wealthy

High-minded

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

Patient

Pitying

Wondering

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Helpful

Selfish

Amount

Crowd-pleasing
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?

A political party

A cemetery

A mythological character

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

The speaker

Dublin's middle class

Yeats

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

ABBCDD

AABBCC

ABACDC

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

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

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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?

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony

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

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

Castle

Crown

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