To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Restless

Bold

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?

Dactylic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Helpless

Poor

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

Abuse

Retort

Defamation

Rude statement
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?

Understatement

Apostrophe

Simile

Personification
7 Who is the speaker?

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

A gravedigger

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

William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

James Joyce

Maud Gonne
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:

The pack upon him.

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?

Ghost

Sunglasses

Awning

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

Anaphora

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?

London

Belfast

Manchester

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Angry

Luxurious

Skinny

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Move quickly

Lie

Wonder

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

G

T

L

N
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Tall

Snobbish

High-minded

Wealthy
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."

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

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

Amount

Crowd-pleasing

Selfish

Helpful
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?

A mythological character

A cemetery

A political party

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

Yeats

The speaker

Dublin's middle class

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

ABACDC

ABBACDDC

ABBCDD

AABBCC
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?

Situational irony

The line is not ironic

Verbal irony

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

Public Sculpture

Crown

Autobiography

Castle

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