To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Lively

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

Transparent

Helpless

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

Retort

Abuse

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

"foul mouth"

"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?
A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

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

Maud Gonne

Charles Parnell

William Gladstone
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

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?
Awning

Curtain

Sunglasses

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

End rhyme

Zeugma

Apostrophe
12 In which city is the poem set?
Belfast

London

Manchester

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

Ghostly

Luxurious

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

Lie

Wonder

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

T

N

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

Wealthy

Snobbish

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

Exhilarated

Wondering

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

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

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

Selfish

Helpful

Crowd-pleasing
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

The speaker

Parnell and Lane

Yeats
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABACDC

AABBCC

ABBCDD

ABBACDDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

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

"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?
The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

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

Crown

Public Sculpture

Castle

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