To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Restless

Lively

Bold
2 What is this poem's meter?
Dactylic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Poor

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

Retort

Defamation

Rude statement
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Personification

Apostrophe

Understatement

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

Charles Parnell
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument

The pack upon him.
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Ghost

Curtain

Awning

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

Apostrophe

Anaphora

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?
Manchester

Belfast

London

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Angry

Skinny

Ghostly

Luxurious
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Lie

Move quickly

Wonder

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

N

L

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
High-minded

Tall

Wealthy

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

Patient

Exhilarated

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

Simile

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Crowd-pleasing

Selfish

Helpful

Amount
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A cemetery

A holiday

A mythological character

A political party
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Dublin's middle class

The speaker

Parnell and Lane

Yeats
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABACDC

ABBCDD
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Situational irony

Verbal irony

Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Public Sculpture

Autobiography

Castle

Crown

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