Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quizzes

Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quiz

1 How many lines are in this poem?

12

14

10

8
2 What is the poem's form?

English sonnet

Italian sonnet

Villanelle

Sestina
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

A sailor on the night shift

An old woman

A schoolboy

The speaker is not identified
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?

1

7

4

3
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quintains and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet
6 What is this poem's primary meter?

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?

It is written in anapests

It does not rhyme with any other lines

It is longer

It does not differ in a significant way
8 Where is the poem's volta?

After line 2

After line 12

At the beginning of the poem

After line 10
9 Where is the poem set?

In the speaker's bedroom

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall
10 What best describes the poem's mood?

Disgusted

Ominous

Pleading

Teasing
11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of?

The Renaissance

Romanticism

Modernism

The Englightenment
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?

Reason

Domesticity

Innocence

Transcendence
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?

Goblin's eyes

Dragon's breath

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?

It's essential to be logical and objective

Your friends are your most important possession

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?

The arts

Nature

Domesticity

Urban life
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?

Apostrophe

Dramatic irony

Personification

Caesura
17 Which of the following appears in the line “Save where is heard the repercussive roar”?

Assonance

Oxymoron

Alliteration

Sarcasm
18 Which sound contributes to alliteration in the line “Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone”?

R

T

S

M
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

"All is black shadow"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?

shore/roar

mute/foot

sand/land

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 1800

Around 1920

Around 2000
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

"That wavering reason lends in life’s long darkling way."

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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