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

14

8
2 What is the poem's form?

Sestina

Villanelle

English sonnet

Italian sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

A sailor on the night shift

The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

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

7

3

1

4
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quatrains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

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

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter

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

It does not rhyme with any other lines

It is written in anapests

It does not differ in a significant way

It is longer
8 Where is the poem's volta?

After line 12

At the beginning of the poem

After line 10

After line 2
9 Where is the poem set?

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall

In the speaker's bedroom
10 What best describes the poem's mood?

Ominous

Teasing

Pleading

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

The Englightenment

Modernism

Romanticism

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

Domesticity

Transcendence

Innocence

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

Witch's hearths

Dragon's breath

Goblin's eyes

Fairy fires
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?

Your friends are your most important possession

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

It's essential to be logical and objective

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?

Domesticity

Urban life

Nature

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

Caesura

Dramatic irony

Apostrophe

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

Alliteration

Assonance

Oxymoron

Sarcasm
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?

"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 EFEF GG

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?

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

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?

mute/foot

tone/alone

sand/land

shore/roar
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1920

Around 1750

Around 2000

Around 1800
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

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

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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