Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

Woman to Man in 1949

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

The Moving Image in 1946

The Gateway in 1953
2 What gets personified in the poem?

The train

The sky

The moon

The land and the trees
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

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

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem is in free verse

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

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

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 land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Logical

Inviting

Relaxed

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

that broke my heart

that built my heart

from which I come from

from which I was born
9 Define "glassed"

Attacked

To be observing

Altered

Enclosed
10 How is the train described?

the barren height

as an animal traveling north with guns

confused hammering dark

cold
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?

Sunlight

Moonlight

The train's lights

Starlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?

poetry moved

dry flight

box-tree

barren height
13 What is assonance?

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

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

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

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
14 Define "crosswise"

an argument

the wisdom that comes from anger

diagonally or transversely.

a Christian cross
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

Third-person

First and second-person

Omniscient third-person

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

Begs, Yells

Bosses, Instructs

Instructs, Beseeches

Asks, Implores
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

Breath of dew

The ability to dance

Cold sheets

Crosswise currents
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.

Unspecified

Awake but in an altered state.

Asleep and dreaming.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

Nothing will happen.

The trees will die.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

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

mysteriously, purposeful

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely

dreamlike, consciouss
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?

barren height

dry flight

a slender dance

crosswise currents
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker drives the train.

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker observes the train.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Exclamation

Parenthesis

Semi colon

Ellipses

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by Judith Wright

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