1 How many lines are in this poem? 12 14 8 10 2 What is the poem's form? Italian sonnet English sonnet Villanelle Sestina 3 Who is this poem's speaker? An old woman A sailor on the night shift The speaker is not identified A schoolboy 4 How many stanzas are in the poem? 7 3 4 1 5 What types of stanzas are in this poem? Sestets and a couplet Tercets and a couplet Quintains and a couplet Quatrains and a couplet 6 What is this poem's primary meter? Spondaic monometer Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter Trochaic trimeter 7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones? It is longer It is written in anapests It does not rhyme with any other lines It does not differ in a significant way 8 Where is the poem's volta? After line 12 At the beginning of the poem After line 2 After line 10 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 Teasing Disgusted Pleading 11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of? Modernism Romanticism The Renaissance The Englightenment 12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about? Innocence Transcendence Reason Domesticity 13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following? Goblin's eyes Witch's hearths Dragon's breath Fairy fires 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? Domesticity Urban life The arts Nature 16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem? Personification Caesura Apostrophe Dramatic irony 17 Which of the following appears in the line “Save where is heard the repercussive roar”? Oxymoron Sarcasm Alliteration Assonance 18 Which sound contributes to alliteration in the line “Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone”? S R T M 19 Which phrase contains assonance? "Huge vapours brood" "All is black shadow" "such the dubious ray" "bidding 'Strike the bell!'" 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? "Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore" "seamen in the anchored bark that tell" "Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine" "Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray" 23 Which two end words create slant rhyme? tone/alone mute/foot sand/land shore/roar 24 When was this poem written? Around 1920 Around 2000 Around 1750 Around 1800 25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche? "Night on the ocean settles dark and mute," "the lucid line / Marked by the light surf" "That wavering reason lends in life’s long darkling way." "one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"