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?
8

10

14

12
2 What is the poem's form?
English sonnet

Sestina

Italian sonnet

Villanelle
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
A sailor on the night shift

An old woman

A schoolboy

The speaker is not identified
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
7

4

1

3
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?
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer
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 2

At the beginning of the poem

After line 10

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?
By the ocean at nightfall

In a dreamlike fantasy world

On a boat as sailors change shifts

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

Teasing

Disgusted

Pleading
11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of?
The Renaissance

Romanticism

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

Dragon's breath

Witch's hearths

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

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

Your friends are your most important possession

It's essential to be logical and objective
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?
Dramatic irony

Apostrophe

Caesura

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

Alliteration

Sarcasm

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

S

R

M
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"such the dubious ray"

"All is black shadow"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"Huge vapours brood"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

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
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

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

mute/foot

shore/roar

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?
Around 2000

Around 1750

Around 1920

Around 1800
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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

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