To a Shade Quizzes

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?
Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Generous

Poor

Helpless
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?
"when the day is spent"

"insult heaped upon him"

"given their children's children"

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

Personification

Understatement

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

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

James Joyce

William Gladstone

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

The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

Whether to look upon your monument
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Awning

Curtain

Sunglasses

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

Zeugma

Anaphora

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

Manchester

Belfast

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

Angry

Luxurious

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

Move quickly

Lie

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

N

L

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

Wealthy

High-minded

Tall
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."
Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Foreshadowing
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 mythological character

A cemetery

A holiday

A political party
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Dublin's middle class

Parnell and Lane

The speaker

Yeats
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBCDD

AABBCC

ABBACDDC

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?
Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony

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

Public Sculpture

Crown

Autobiography

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