To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Loud

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?
Iambic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Trochaic 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?
Retort

Defamation

Abuse

Rude statement
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?
Simile

Personification

Understatement

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

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

Maud Gonne

William Gladstone

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

The pack upon him.

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

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

Sunglasses

Curtain

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

Apostrophe

Anaphora

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Manchester

Dublin

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

Skinny

Luxurious

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Wonder

Gossip

Lie

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

T

N

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

Tall

Wealthy

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

Patient

Pitying

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

Simile

Hyperbole

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

Selfish

Crowd-pleasing

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)?
Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class

Yeats

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

ABBACDDC

ABACDC

ABBCDD
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

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

Public Sculpture

Castle

Crown

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