To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Loud

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

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Helpless

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

Retort

Defamation

Abuse
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?
Apostrophe

Understatement

Simile

Personification
7 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Maud Gonne

James Joyce

Charles Parnell

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?
Sunglasses

Awning

Curtain

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

Anaphora

End rhyme

Apostrophe
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Dublin

Belfast

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

Angry

Luxurious

Skinny
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Lie

Move quickly

Gossip

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

N

T

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

Wealthy

Tall

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

Exhilarated

Wondering

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

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing

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

Helpful

Crowd-pleasing

Selfish
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A political party

A mythological character

A cemetery

A holiday
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Yeats

Dublin's middle class

The speaker

Parnell and Lane
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?
"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

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

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"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?
Situational irony

Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic

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

Castle

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

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