To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Loud

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

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic 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

Rude statement

Defamation
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Understatement

Personification

Apostrophe

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell
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?
Whether to look upon your monument

The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

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

Curtain

Awning

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

Apostrophe

End rhyme

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Manchester

Dublin

London

Belfast
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Skinny

Luxurious

Ghostly

Angry
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Move quickly

Wonder

Gossip

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

L

T

G
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
High-minded

Snobbish

Tall

Wealthy
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."
Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Simile

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

Selfish

Crowd-pleasing

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

A holiday

A mythological character

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

Yeats

The speaker

Parnell and Lane
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?
"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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."
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?
Public Sculpture

Castle

Crown

Autobiography

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