To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Restless

Loud

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Poor

Transparent

Generous

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

Retort

Abuse

Defamation

Rude statement
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?

"given their children's children"

"when the day is spent"

"insult heaped upon him"

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

Understatement

Simile

Personification

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?

A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne

James Joyce

William Gladstone
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:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?

Curtain

Awning

Ghost

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

Apostrophe

Zeugma

End rhyme

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?

Belfast

London

Manchester

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Ghostly

Skinny

Luxurious

Angry
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Lie

Gossip

Wonder

Move quickly
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

High-minded

Tall
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."

Hyperbole

Simile

Foreshadowing

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

Amount

Selfish

Helpful

Crowd-pleasing
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?

A political party

A cemetery

A mythological character

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

The speaker

Dublin's middle class

Yeats

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

AABBCC

ABACDC

ABBACDDC

ABBCDD
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."

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"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?

The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

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

Crown

Autobiography

Public Sculpture

Castle

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