To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Loud

Restless

Bold
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?

Helpless

Transparent

Generous

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

Defamation

Rude statement

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?

Understatement

Simile

Personification

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gravedigger

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?

The pack upon him.

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument

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

Awning

Sunglasses

Curtain

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

Anaphora

Zeugma

Apostrophe

End rhyme
12 In which city is the poem set?

London

Dublin

Manchester

Belfast
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?

Tall

High-minded

Wealthy

Snobbish
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."

Foreshadowing

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Crowd-pleasing

Amount

Helpful

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

A cemetery

A political party

A holiday

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

The speaker

Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class

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

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABBCDD

ABACDC
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

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

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

Crown

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

Castle

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