To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Restless

Bold

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?

Anapestic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Helpless

Generous

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

Defamation

Retort

Rude statement

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

"when the day is spent"

"given their children's children"

"foul mouth"

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

Simile

Personification

Understatement

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

William Gladstone

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

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 gather the Glasnevin coverlet

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?

Curtain

Sunglasses

Ghost

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

Apostrophe

Anaphora

End rhyme

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?

Manchester

Belfast

Dublin

London
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Skinny

Angry

Luxurious

Ghostly
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

L

N

G
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Wealthy

Tall

High-minded

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

Patient

Exhilarated

Pitying

Wondering
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

Amount

Helpful
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?

A mythological character

A cemetery

A political party

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

Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class

Yeats

The speaker
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?

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic
25 What does the word "monument" mean?

Public Sculpture

Castle

Autobiography

Crown

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