A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

1 What do the linnets represent?
The daughter's friends

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's artworks
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"

"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"

"For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares."
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Age and wisdom

Rootedness in place

Physical strength and size

Sublime beauty
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Alliteration

Metonymy
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Quintains

Octets

Quatrains

Sestets
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Eyelid

Blanket

Jar lid

Curtain
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Daydream

Prayer

Brook

Monument
9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life?
Artistry

Sublimity

Stability

Memorability
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"

"the storm is howling"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBACDDC

AABBCDDC

ABACDCAB

ABABCDCD
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Pentameter

Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Burdening

Stopping

Frightening

Observing
14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what?
Simile

Synecdoche

Understatement

Hyperbole
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is very young and asleep

She is not yet born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Danger and extremes

The changing seasons

Agricultural abundance

Nature's wrath
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Cleopatra

Aphrodite

Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy
18 Where is the poem set?
Dublin in 1916

An Irish woodland

The Tower of London

A battlefield during World War I
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Mistrustful

Upset

Uncertain

Disorganized
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Nobility

Politeness

Bluntness

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution
23 What is a linnet?
A candle

A bird

A baby

A nightgown
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Heat

Generosity

Overstatement

Reason
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"let her think opinions are accursed."

"May she be granted beauty"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"though every face should scowl"

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