Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?
The Gateway in 1953

The Moving Image in 1946

Woman to Man in 1949

Born of the Conquerors in 1991
2 What gets personified in the poem?
The sky

The moon

The train

The land and the trees
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 has slant rhymes

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem is in free verse
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.
6 What is the land compared to?
The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

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

Relaxed

Logical

Inviting
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
that broke my heart

from which I was born

that built my heart

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"
Altered

Attacked

Enclosed

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
confused hammering dark

the barren height

as an animal traveling north with guns

cold
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
The train's lights

Moonlight

Starlight

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
barren height

box-tree

dry flight

poetry moved
13 What is assonance?
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 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 same consonant sounds in a line of text.
14 Define "crosswise"
diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument

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?
Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

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

Breath of dew

Crosswise currents

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

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

Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.
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 telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?
The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

The trees will die.

Nothing will happen.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
mysteriously, purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?
barren height

a slender dance

dry flight

crosswise currents
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

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

Parenthesis

Ellipses

Exclamation

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