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?
Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Poor

Generous

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

Defamation

Abuse

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

"given their children's children"

"foul mouth"

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

Simile

Apostrophe

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Maud Gonne

Charles Parnell

William Gladstone

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument

The pack upon him.

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

Ghost

Curtain

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

Apostrophe

Zeugma

End rhyme
12 In which city is the poem set?
Belfast

London

Manchester

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

Luxurious

Angry

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Lie

Move quickly

Gossip

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

N

L

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Snobbish

Tall

High-minded

Wealthy
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Patient

Exhilarated

Wondering

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

Onomatopoeia

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole
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 cemetery

A holiday

A mythological character
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class

The speaker

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

ABBACDDC

ABACDC

ABBCDD
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

Situational irony

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

Castle

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

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