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

12

10

8
2 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

Italian sonnet

English sonnet

Sestina
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
An old woman

The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

A sailor on the night shift
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
7

4

3

1
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?
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter
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 longer

It does not differ in a significant way

It is written in anapests
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 2

After line 12

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem
9 Where is the poem set?
In a dreamlike fantasy world

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

By the ocean at nightfall
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Disgusted

Teasing

Pleading

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

The Renaissance

Romanticism

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

Transcendence

Innocence

Domesticity
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Witch's hearths

Goblin's eyes

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

The arts

Nature

Urban life
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?
Apostrophe

Dramatic irony

Caesura

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

Sarcasm

Assonance

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

T

S

M
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

"All is black shadow"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABA CDC EFE GHG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

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

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

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

mute/foot

shore/roar

sand/land
24 When was this poem written?
Around 1800

Around 2000

Around 1920

Around 1750
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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