To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Bold

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

Dactylic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Generous

Poor

Transparent
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?
"foul mouth"

"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"

"given their children's children"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Personification

Simile

Apostrophe

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist

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

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

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

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.

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

Awning

Curtain

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

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Dublin

Manchester

London

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

Skinny

Angry

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

Gossip

Move quickly

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

N

T

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

Wealthy

Tall

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

Pitying

Exhilarated

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

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

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

Helpful

Amount

Crowd-pleasing
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)?
Dublin's middle class

Yeats

The speaker

Parnell and Lane
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABACDC

ABBCDD

AABBCC

ABBACDDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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,"
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

Public Sculpture

Crown

Castle

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