To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Restless

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?
Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Poor

Helpless

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

Defamation

Retort

Rude statement
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?
Personification

Simile

Understatement

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne

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

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

Curtain

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

End rhyme

Zeugma

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Manchester

Dublin

London

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

Ghostly

Angry

Luxurious
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Wonder

Gossip

Lie

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

N

T

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

High-minded

Snobbish

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

Pitying

Wondering

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

Simile

Hyperbole

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

Helpful

Selfish

Crowd-pleasing
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A mythological character

A holiday

A political party

A cemetery
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?
ABBACDDC

ABBCDD

ABACDC

AABBCC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Castle

Crown

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

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