Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quizzes

Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quiz

1 How many lines are in this poem?
8

12

10

14
2 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

English sonnet

Italian sonnet

Sestina
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
A schoolboy

The speaker is not identified

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

7

4

3
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?
Quatrains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet
6 What is this poem's primary meter?
Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?
It does not differ in a significant way

It is written in anapests

It does not rhyme with any other lines

It is longer
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 12

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2
9 Where is the poem set?
By the ocean at nightfall

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In a dreamlike fantasy world

In the speaker's bedroom
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Teasing

Pleading

Ominous

Disgusted
11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of?
Romanticism

The Renaissance

The Englightenment

Modernism
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?
Innocence

Transcendence

Domesticity

Reason
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Witch's hearths

Goblin's eyes

Fairy fires

Dragon's breath
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?
It's essential to be logical and objective

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

Your friends are your most important possession
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?
Domesticity

Nature

Urban life

The arts
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?
Apostrophe

Caesura

Dramatic irony

Personification
17 Which of the following appears in the line “Save where is heard the repercussive roar”?
Assonance

Alliteration

Sarcasm

Oxymoron
18 Which sound contributes to alliteration in the line “Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone”?
S

R

M

T
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"such the dubious ray"

"All is black shadow"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"Huge vapours brood"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet

The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?
mute/foot

shore/roar

sand/land

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?
Around 2000

Around 1750

Around 1800

Around 1920
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"That wavering reason lends in life’s long darkling way."

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

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