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

8

10
2 What is the poem's form?

Italian sonnet

English sonnet

Villanelle

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?

3

7

1

4
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quatrains and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

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 10

After line 12

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2
9 Where is the poem set?

In a dreamlike fantasy world

In the speaker's bedroom

On a boat as sailors change shifts

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

Teasing

Disgusted

Pleading

Ominous
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

Innocence

Transcendence

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

Witch's hearths

Fairy fires

Dragon's breath

Goblin's eyes
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

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”?

Alliteration

Sarcasm

Oxymoron

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

R

M

S

T
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"All is black shadow"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABA CDC EFE GHG

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?

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?

mute/foot

shore/roar

sand/land

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1920

Around 2000

Around 1750

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,"

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

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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