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?
10

12

14

8
2 What is the poem's form?
Sestina

English sonnet

Villanelle

Italian sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
A sailor on the night shift

An old woman

The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

3

1

7
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?
Tercets and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

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

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?
It does not differ in a significant way

It is longer

It is written in anapests

It does not rhyme with any other lines
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 2

After line 12

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem
9 Where is the poem set?
On a boat as sailors change shifts

By the ocean at nightfall

In a dreamlike fantasy world

In the speaker's bedroom
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Ominous

Pleading

Teasing

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

Romanticism

The Englightenment

The Renaissance
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?
Reason

Transcendence

Domesticity

Innocence
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Fairy fires

Dragon's breath

Goblin's eyes

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

It's essential to be logical and objective
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?
Nature

Domesticity

The arts

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

Personification

Caesura

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

Oxymoron

Assonance

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

T

R

S
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"such the dubious ray"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"Huge vapours brood"

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

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?
sand/land

shore/roar

mute/foot

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?
Around 1800

Around 1750

Around 1920

Around 2000
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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

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