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

14

8

12
2 What is the poem's form?

English sonnet

Italian sonnet

Sestina

Villanelle
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

A schoolboy

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift

The speaker is not identified
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?

1

7

3

4
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quatrains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

Quintains 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 longer

It is written in anapests

It does not differ in a significant way

It does not rhyme with any other lines
8 Where is the poem's volta?

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

In a dreamlike fantasy world

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

Pleading

Disgusted

Teasing

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

Romanticism

The Renaissance

The Englightenment

Modernism
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?

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths

Dragon's breath

Goblin's eyes
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

Domesticity

Nature
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?

Apostrophe

Dramatic irony

Personification

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

Alliteration

Sarcasm

Assonance

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

T

M

S

R
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"All is black shadow"

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

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

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

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 argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

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"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

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

sand/land

mute/foot

tone/alone

shore/roar
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 1920

Around 2000

Around 1800
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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