To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Lively

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

Anapestic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

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

Generous

Transparent

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

Rude statement

Defamation

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

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

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

Personification

Apostrophe

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist

Charles Parnell
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Maud Gonne

William Gladstone

James Joyce

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

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

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

Curtain

Awning

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

Anaphora

Zeugma

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

Belfast

Manchester

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

Skinny

Luxurious

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

Lie

Gossip

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

T

G

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

Tall

Wealthy

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

Exhilarated

Patient

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

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia

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

Helpful

Crowd-pleasing

Amount
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A cemetery

A mythological character

A holiday

A political party
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Dublin's middle class

Parnell and Lane

Yeats

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

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABBCDD
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

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

"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?
The line is not ironic

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

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

Castle

Public Sculpture

Crown

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