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?

14

10

12

8
2 What is the poem's form?

Italian sonnet

Villanelle

English sonnet

Sestina
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

A schoolboy

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift

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

7

1

3

4
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Tercets and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

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

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

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 differ in a significant way

It is longer

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

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2

After line 12

After line 10
9 Where is the poem set?

By the ocean at nightfall

In a dreamlike fantasy world

In the speaker's bedroom

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

Pleading

Disgusted

Ominous

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

Romanticism

Modernism

The Renaissance

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

Transcendence

Reason

Domesticity

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

Goblin's eyes

Witch's hearths

Fairy fires

Dragon's breath
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

It's essential to be logical and objective

Your friends are your most important possession

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

Urban life

Domesticity

The arts

Nature
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”?

Sarcasm

Alliteration

Assonance

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

S

T

R

M
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"Huge vapours brood"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"All is black shadow"

"such the dubious ray"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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 speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

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

sand/land

mute/foot

shore/roar

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1800

Around 1750

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,"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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

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