To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Bold

Restless

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?

Dactylic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Poor

Helpless

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

Retort

Abuse

Rude statement

Defamation
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?

"foul mouth"

"insult heaped upon him"

"given their children's children"

"when the day is spent"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?

Personification

Understatement

Simile

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?

A gravedigger

A gallerist

Charles Parnell

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

James Joyce

William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.

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

Ghost

Awning

Curtain

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

End rhyme

Anaphora

Zeugma

Apostrophe
12 In which city is the poem set?

Manchester

Belfast

Dublin

London
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Luxurious

Skinny

Ghostly

Angry
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Wonder

Gossip

Lie

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

L

N

G

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Tall

Snobbish

Wealthy

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

Pitying

Patient

Wondering

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?

Amount

Helpful

Selfish

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

A cemetery

A holiday

A mythological character

A political party
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?

ABBACDDC

ABACDC

ABBCDD

AABBCC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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?

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony

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

Public Sculpture

Crown

Autobiography

Castle

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