The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Synecdoche

Simile

Metonymy
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
The Irish Literary Revival

First-generation Romanticism

Postmodernism

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

That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate
4 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Moths

Lanterns

Scales

Berries
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

3

2

4
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
E

I

S

K
8 The phrase "The golden apples of the sun" is an instance of what?
Understatement

Simile

Metaphor

Personification
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Didactic

Hopeful

Despairing

Exhausted
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?
Love

Nature

Childhood

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

Passion

War

Danger
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?
Four lines (quatrains)

Six lines (sestets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Two lines (couplets)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Witty

Glamorous

Dreamlike

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

The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The way that the forest is a site of magical events

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"Because a fire was in my head"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"With apple blossom in her hair"

"And when white moths were on the wing"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Rustled

Trout

Dappled

Peeled
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
The son of W.B. Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

The Irish god of love and youth

An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDEDF

ABCBDEFE

ABABAB

ABBACDDE
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 repeated evocation of the natural world

The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity

The speaker's ease in using natural materials to make the fishing pole
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Oranges

Ivy

Apples

Acorns
24 In what year was this work published?
1897

2003

1906

1881
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
The Tower

The Wind Among the Reeds

Sailing to Byzantium

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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