The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Simile

Metonymy

Metaphor
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
Postmodernism

The Irish Literary Revival

The New York School

First-generation Romanticism
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?
Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Berries

Moths

Scales

Lanterns
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

1

3

2
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
E

S

K

I
8 The phrase "The golden apples of the sun" is an instance of what?
Metaphor

Personification

Understatement

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

Exhausted

Didactic

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

Poetry

Youth

Love
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Aging

Nature

Childhood

Love
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Passion

Home

Danger

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

"And pluck till time and times are done"

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Six lines (sestets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Four lines (quatrains)

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

Witty

Glamorous

Dreamlike
16 Which is an instance of irony?
The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it

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
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?
Dappled

Peeled

Rustled

Trout
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
The Irish god of love and youth

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

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

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

ABACDEDF

ABBACDDE

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

A modern Irish city

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Ireland, in a mythical past
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
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

The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Oranges

Apples

Ivy

Acorns
24 In what year was this work published?
1897

1881

2003

1906
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
The Tower

The Wind Among the Reeds

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Sailing to Byzantium

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