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

8

14
2 What is the poem's form?

Sestina

Italian sonnet

Villanelle

English sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift

A schoolboy

The speaker is not identified
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?

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer
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 2

At the beginning of the poem

After line 12

After line 10
9 Where is the poem set?

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

By the ocean at nightfall

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

Pleading

Disgusted

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?

Innocence

Domesticity

Reason

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

Dragon's breath

Witch's hearths

Goblin's eyes

Fairy fires
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

Nature

The arts
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?

Caesura

Dramatic irony

Personification

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

Alliteration

Oxymoron

Sarcasm

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

R

T

M

S
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?

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?

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

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet

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?

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

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

tone/alone

mute/foot

shore/roar

sand/land
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 1800

Around 1920

Around 2000
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

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

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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