Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

1 What kind of poem is "Yet Do I Marvel"?
Haiku

Free verse

Villanelle

Sonnet
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
Prometheus

Tantalus

Sisyphus

God
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Contradiction

Pace

Volta

Hinge
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Not immunized

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't get sick

Can't be combined
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It lives underground and is blind

It is can't sing

It is black

It is mortal
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Trochee

Spondee

Form

Meter
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Mythological

Biological

Entomological

Theological

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