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 artworks

The daughter's anxieties

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

"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."

"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Rootedness in place

Sublime beauty

Physical strength and size

Age and wisdom
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metonymy

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

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Quatrains

Quintains

Sestets

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

Blanket

Curtain

Jar lid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Daydream

Brook

Monument

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

Memorability

Stability

Sublimity
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"the storm is howling"

"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCDCD

ABBACDDC

ABACDCAB

AABBCDDC
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Pentameter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Burdening

Frightening

Observing

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

Synecdoche

Simile

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is not yet born

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is very young and asleep
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Agricultural abundance

Nature's wrath

Danger and extremes

The changing seasons
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Cleopatra

Helen of Troy

Aphrodite

Queen Victoria
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I

The Tower of London
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Disorganized

Mistrustful

Uncertain

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

Politeness

Tradition

Bluntness
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

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 martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A mother with a sick child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child
23 What is a linnet?
A bird

A baby

A nightgown

A candle
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Reason

Generosity

Overstatement

Heat
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"May she be granted beauty"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"though every face should scowl"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

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