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?
8

10

12

14
2 What is the poem's form?
Sestina

Italian sonnet

English sonnet

Villanelle
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

A sailor on the night shift

An old woman
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

3

7

4
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?
Quatrains and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet
6 What is this poem's primary meter?
Iambic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?
It does not rhyme with any other lines

It does not differ in a significant way

It is longer

It is written in anapests
8 Where is the poem's volta?
At the beginning of the poem

After line 10

After line 2

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?
In a dreamlike fantasy world

In the speaker's bedroom

By the ocean at nightfall

On a boat as sailors change shifts
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Ominous

Disgusted

Teasing

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

The Renaissance

The Englightenment

Romanticism
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?
Transcendence

Innocence

Reason

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

Witch's hearths

Dragon's breath

Goblin's eyes
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?
Your friends are your most important possession

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

It's essential to be logical and objective

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?
The arts

Urban life

Nature

Domesticity
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?
Caesura

Personification

Apostrophe

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

Assonance

Sarcasm

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

M

T

R
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?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABA CDC EFE GHG
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 argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?
tone/alone

shore/roar

mute/foot

sand/land
24 When was this poem written?
Around 1750

Around 1800

Around 2000

Around 1920
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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