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?
12

8

14

10
2 What is the poem's form?
Italian sonnet

Villanelle

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?
4

7

3

1
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?
Sestets and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet

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

Spondaic monometer

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 is longer

It does not differ in a significant way
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 12

After line 10

After line 2

At the beginning of the poem
9 Where is the poem set?
By the ocean at nightfall

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

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

Ominous

Disgusted

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

Romanticism

Modernism

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

Innocence

Domesticity

Transcendence
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Dragon's breath

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths

Goblin's eyes
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?
Personification

Caesura

Apostrophe

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

Sarcasm

Oxymoron

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

S

M

T
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"All is black shadow"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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

The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"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 1800

Around 2000

Around 1750

Around 1920
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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