Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

The Moving Image in 1946

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

Woman to Man in 1949

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

The sky

The moon

The land and the trees

The train
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

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

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem is in free verse

The poem has fourteen lines

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 a sentient being who hates humans.

The land is the speaker's mother.

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

Relaxed

Dreamlike

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

that broke my heart

from which I come from

that built my heart

from which I was born
9 Define "glassed"

Enclosed

To be observing

Altered

Attacked
10 How is the train described?

as an animal traveling north with guns

confused hammering dark

the barren height

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

Starlight

Moonlight

The train's lights

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?

barren height

dry flight

poetry moved

box-tree
13 What is assonance?

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

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

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

an argument

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger
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?

Bosses, Instructs

Asks, Implores

Instructs, Beseeches

Begs, Yells
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

Breath of dew

Cold sheets

The ability to dance

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

Unspecified

Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.

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 criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

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

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"?

Nothing will happen.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will die.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely

dreamlike, consciouss

mysteriously, purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

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

barren height

crosswise currents

a slender dance

dry flight
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 train.

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Exclamation

Semi colon

Parenthesis

Ellipses

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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