A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A rowboat

A worm

A bird

A blade of grass
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Monostiches

Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Depressed and somber

Plucky and determined

Cautious and curious

Whimsical and bright
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Two

Five

Ten

Seven
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1898

1891

1918
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The countryside, likely a grassy field

A frozen lake

Cape Cod

The Maine woods
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A beetle

A worm

Seeds

A butterfly
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Flying home

Staring at her

Drinking dew from a blade of grass
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Seafaring

Tailoring

Gardening

Capentry
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To substitute for periods

To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection

To replace semicolons
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The retelling of a ghost story
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of trochaic octameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Noble

Murderous

Too complex to categorize

Dull
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
The ocean

A rowboat and butterflies

The sun and a swarm of bees

A snake
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird consumes the worm

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird drinks dew
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm found only on sandy beaches

A worm used for bait fishing

A ruler

A protractor
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's graceful flight home

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The unknowability of nature

The dangers of the ocean

The curiosity of children

The pain of unrequited love
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
The worm

A whale

A rowboat

Butterflies
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Seam" and "swim"

"Saw" and "raw"

"Walk" and "halves"

"Grass" and "pass"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Reference other poets

Shift the meaning of individual words

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

The difficulty of returning home

The speaker's desire to be free

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Walt Whitman

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