Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

The Gateway in 1953

The Moving Image in 1946

Woman to Man in 1949
2 What gets personified in the poem?

The land and the trees

The train

The sky

The moon
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?

The poem is in free verse

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has an extra couplet
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker expresses love for nature.
6 What is the land compared to?

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Inviting

Logical

Dreamlike

Relaxed
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"

from which I was born

that built my heart

that broke my heart

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"

Altered

To be observing

Enclosed

Attacked
10 How is the train described?

as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

the barren height

confused hammering dark
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?

Starlight

The train's lights

Moonlight

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?

dry flight

poetry moved

box-tree

barren height
13 What is assonance?

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

A tool of figurative language where an image, idea, object or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning

A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object
14 Define "crosswise"

a Christian cross

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

First-person

First and second-person

Third-person

Omniscient third-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

Asks, Implores

Bosses, Instructs
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

Breath of dew

The ability to dance

Crosswise currents

Cold sheets
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?

Awake but in an altered state.

Asleep and dreaming.

Unspecified

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?

By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

The trees will reanimate themselves.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will die.

The trees will exist in another dimension.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely

mysteriously, purposeful

articulate, sharp, and purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?

a slender dance

barren height

crosswise currents

dry flight
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker drives the train.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Exclamation

Semi colon

Ellipses

Parenthesis

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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