The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

1 The phrase "moth-like stars" is an instance of what?
Metonymy

Simile

Synecdoche

Metaphor
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
The New York School

The Irish Literary Revival

First-generation Romanticism

Postmodernism
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is angry

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Lanterns

Moths

Scales

Berries
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

2

1

3
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
K

I

S

E
8 The phrase "The golden apples of the sun" is an instance of what?
Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Understatement
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Despairing

Hopeful

Exhausted

Didactic
10 Which of the following is NOT associated with Aengus?
War

Poetry

Love

Youth
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Nature

Love

Childhood

Aging
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Danger

War

Passion

Home
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"And pluck till time and times are done"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Two lines (couplets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Four lines (quatrains)

Six lines (sestets)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Glamorous

Witty

Cozy

Dreamlike
16 Which is an instance of irony?
The fact that Aengus becomes more sure of his success the longer his quest takes

The way that the forest is a site of magical events

The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Because a fire was in my head"

"And when white moths were on the wing"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Trout

Peeled

Dappled

Rustled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin

The son of W.B. Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

The Irish god of love and youth
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABAB

ABBACDDE

ABCBDEFE

ABACDEDF
21 Where is the poem set?
The Tower of London

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

A modern Irish city

Ireland, in a mythical past
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman

The repeated evocation of the natural world

The speaker's ease in using natural materials to make the fishing pole

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Oranges

Acorns

Ivy

Apples
24 In what year was this work published?
1897

2003

1881

1906
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
The Wind Among the Reeds

Sailing to Byzantium

The Tower

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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