To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Restless

Lively

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?
Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Anapestic 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?
Retort

Rude statement

Defamation

Abuse
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

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

Apostrophe

Personification

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

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

Charles Parnell

William Gladstone

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

The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

Whether to look upon your monument
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Awning

Sunglasses

Ghost

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

Zeugma

End rhyme

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Belfast

Dublin

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

Skinny

Angry

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

Wonder

Lie

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

L

T

G
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Wealthy

High-minded

Snobbish

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

Pitying

Patient

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

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

Helpful

Amount

Selfish
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A mythological character

A political party

A holiday

A cemetery
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
The speaker

Yeats

Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBACDDC

ABBCDD

ABACDC

AABBCC
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,"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"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?
Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

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

Crown

Castle

Public Sculpture

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