To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

1 What does the word "Unquiet" mean in the poem?
Bold

Lively

Loud

Restless
2 What is this poem's meter?
Trochaic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter
3 What does "open-handed" mean in the poem's context?
Poor

Transparent

Helpless

Generous
4 What does the word "insult" most closely mean in the poem's context?
Retort

Abuse

Rude statement

Defamation
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"when the day is spent"

"given their children's children"

"foul mouth"

"insult heaped upon him"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Apostrophe

Understatement

Simile

Personification
7 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

James Joyce

Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
Whether to look upon your monument

The pack upon him.

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Sunglasses

Ghost

Awning

Curtain
11 The poem as a whole is centered around which device?
End rhyme

Apostrophe

Zeugma

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
Manchester

Dublin

London

Belfast
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Luxurious

Skinny

Angry

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Move quickly

Wonder

Lie

Gossip
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
L

G

N

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Wealthy

High-minded

Tall

Snobbish
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Exhilarated

Pitying

Wondering

Patient
18 Which literary device appears in the phrase "Sweeter emotion, working in their veins/Like gentle blood."
Onomatopoeia

Simile

Hyperbole

Foreshadowing
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Selfish

Amount

Crowd-pleasing

Helpful
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A mythological character

A political party

A cemetery

A holiday
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Yeats

Dublin's middle class

The speaker

Parnell and Lane
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBACDDC

ABBCDD

ABACDC

AABBCC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Situational irony

The line is not ironic

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Public Sculpture

Crown

Autobiography

Castle

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