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To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Bold

Lively
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?
Generous

Poor

Transparent

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

Retort

Rude statement

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

"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"

"foul mouth"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Apostrophe

Personification

Simile

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

Charles Parnell
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument

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

Curtain

Sunglasses

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

Anaphora

End rhyme

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?
Belfast

Manchester

Dublin

London
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Angry

Ghostly

Skinny

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

Gossip

Move quickly

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

T

N

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

Snobbish

Tall

Wealthy
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Pitying

Wondering

Patient

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

Onomatopoeia

Simile

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

Crowd-pleasing

Amount

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

A political party

A mythological character

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

Dublin's middle class

Parnell and Lane

The speaker
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABACDC

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"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

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

The line is not ironic
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Public Sculpture

Crown

Castle

Autobiography

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