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Hope is the Thing with Feathers Quiz

1 What does the phrase "thing with feathers" refer to?
A songbird

A personification of hopelessness

A weather balloon

A falcon
2 What is the poem's central theme?
The endurance of hope

The passage of time

The strength of happiness

The looming of dread
3 What is one of the poem's major stylistic features
Erasure

Slant rhyme

Unusual use of the lowercase

Free verse
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And on the strangest Sea"

"That perches in the soul"

"That kept so many warm"

"I’ve heard it in the chillest land"
5 What other poet was widely known for their use of slant rhyme?
Elizabeth Bishop

W.B. Yeats

John Ashbery

Sylvia Plath
6 What is the major conflict?
The speaker traversing the tundra

Dickinson writing the poem

The Civil War

The bird enduring a storm
7 What aspect of the bird embodies hope?
Its migratory pattern

Its song

Its perching

Its flight
8 What is slant rhyme?
When a rhyme occurs in an acrostic poem

When two words rhyme and are italicized

When two lines end in synonyms

When two words sound similar but not the same
9 What is foreshadowed in the poem's first stanza?
The speaker's turbulent personal life

The bird completing its journey to South America

The bird singing in spite of the storm

The speaker's trip to the sea
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Six

Three

One

Twelve
11 Where does the speaker specifically reference their relationship to the bird's song?
Throughout the poem

The second stanza

The first stanza

The third stanza
12 The line “'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is an example of which of the following?
Irony

Similie

Understatement

Personification
13 Which two words are an example of slant rhyme?
"Flight" and "trip"

"Warm" and "storm"

"Flurry" and "scurry"

"Sky" and "high"
14 What description best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Frightened

Frustrated

Optimistic

Gloomy
15 What do the lines "Yet - never - in Extremity, / It asked a crumb - of me" imply about the bird's song?
That the speaker only heard its song in extreme circumstances

That it is given selflessly

That the bird only sings when its hungry

That the speaker finds the bird's song irritating
16 What does the bird's survival of the storm symbolize?
Worrying about nature's unpredictability

The strength of hope

The depth of sorrow

Situations always improving
17 What natural event puts the bird's endurance to the test?
A bolt of lightning

A forest fire

An earthquake

A powerful wind
18 When was the poem published?
1891

1900

1981

1863
19 Where is the poem set?
In Lexington, Kentucky

In Boston, Massachusetts

In a coastal town

In nature, during stormy conditions
20 What is the meaning of the word "gale" in the poem?
A powerful wind

A brief snowstorm

A summer breeze

Heavy rain
21 What does slant rhyme allow the writer to do?
Maintain a rhyme scheme without needing two words to have the same ending or sound

Break up the punctuation of a line

Write a poem with unique alignment

Change verb tense between lines
22 Who is the protagonist of the poem
An unnamed poet

The speaker

The bird

The wind
23 The phrase "never stops - at all" refers to which of the following?
The bird's journey across the ocean

The speaker's well-being

The bird's song

The speaker's admiration of the bird
24 Which of the following stylistic elements does Dickinson NOT make use of in the poem?
Parentheses

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Dashes
25 What type of stanzas does Dickinson use in the poem?
Octaves

Rhyming couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

What is an example of when connotation was used to develop the theme

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Asked by Lynn M #1107710

Answered by Jackiey A #1323322 on 10/12/2023 3:05 PM

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Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily dickinson

What does the writer want the reader to see, hear, taste, feel and smell?

I think the natural elements, oftemn extreme, are evocotave.

sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest...

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Answered by Aslan on 9/19/2021 5:34 PM

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A pome

Chillest in Dickinson's day actually meant cold. It soulds like she means laid back as in "chill" in Hawaii but it means cold like in the Yukon so she is saying, I've heard in the coldest land.

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Answered by Aslan on 12/31/2020 6:14 AM

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