The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Metonymy

Simile

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

The New York School

Postmodernism

First-generation Romanticism
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is angry
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

Scales

Moths

Berries
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
2

1

3

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

E

S

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

Personification

Simile

Metaphor
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Hopeful

Didactic

Despairing

Exhausted
10 Which of the following is NOT associated with Aengus?
Love

Poetry

Youth

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

Love

Aging

Childhood
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
War

Danger

Home

Passion
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"It had become a glimmering girl"

"And pluck till time and times are done"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Six lines (sestets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Two lines (couplets)

Four lines (quatrains)
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?
"Because a fire was in my head"

"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

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

Peeled

Trout

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

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

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

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

ABBACDDE

ABCBDEFE

ABABAB
21 Where is the poem set?
Ireland, in a mythical past

A modern Irish city

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

The Tower of London
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?
Acorns

Ivy

Apples

Oranges
24 In what year was this work published?
1906

1897

1881

2003
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
The Wind Among the Reeds

The Tower

Sailing to Byzantium

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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