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

8

14

10
2 What is the poem's form?

Villanelle

English sonnet

Sestina

Italian sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?

1

4

7

3
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quintains and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic monometer

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

It is written in anapests

It is longer

It does not rhyme with any other lines

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

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2

After line 10

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?

By the ocean at nightfall

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

In a dreamlike fantasy world
10 What best describes the poem's mood?

Disgusted

Pleading

Teasing

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

Romanticism

Modernism

The Englightenment

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

Reason

Innocence

Transcendence

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

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths

Goblin's eyes

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

Your friends are your most important possession

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

Apostrophe

Personification

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

Sarcasm

Assonance

Oxymoron

Alliteration
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?

"All is black shadow"

"Huge vapours brood"

"such the dubious ray"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE
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?

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

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

mute/foot

sand/land

tone/alone

shore/roar
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 2000

Around 1920

Around 1800
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

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

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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