To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Restless

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?
Trochaic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Poor

Generous

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

Abuse

Retort

Defamation
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"insult heaped upon him"

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

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

Simile

Understatement

Personification
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Charles Parnell

William Gladstone

James Joyce

Maud Gonne
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:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Ghost

Sunglasses

Curtain

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

Zeugma

Apostrophe

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Manchester

Dublin

Belfast

London
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Ghostly

Skinny

Luxurious

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

Gossip

Lie

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

N

G

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

Tall

Wealthy

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

Patient

Wondering

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

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

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

Selfish

Helpful

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

A holiday

A cemetery

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

Yeats

Parnell and Lane

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

ABACDC

ABBCDD

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

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

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

"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

Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic

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

Autobiography

Castle

Public Sculpture

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