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To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Lively

Bold
2 What is this poem's meter?
Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

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

Helpless

Generous

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

Abuse

Retort

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

"given their children's children"

"foul mouth"

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

Understatement

Apostrophe

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne

James Joyce

William Gladstone
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
Whether to look upon your monument

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Sunglasses

Awning

Curtain

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

Apostrophe

Anaphora

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

London

Manchester

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

Skinny

Angry

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

Move quickly

Lie

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

N

L

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

Wealthy

Tall

High-minded
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Pitying

Wondering

Exhilarated

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

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

Crowd-pleasing

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)?
Parnell and Lane

The speaker

Yeats

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

AABBCC

ABBCDD

ABBACDDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Verbal irony

Situational irony

The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Public Sculpture

Autobiography

Crown

Castle

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