1 What is the main subject of the poem A bird A worm A rowboat A blade of grass 2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain? Sextets Octaves Quatrains Monostiches 3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem? Slant rhyme Unusual text alignment Unconventional capitalization Dashes 4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem? Whimsical and bright Depressed and somber Cautious and curious Plucky and determined 5 How many stanzas does the poem have Seven Ten Two Five 6 When was the poem published? 1891 1861 1918 1898 7 What is the setting of the poem? The Maine woods A frozen lake The countryside, likely a grassy field Cape Cod 8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza? A beetle A butterfly A worm Seeds 9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird? Flying home Staring at her Drinking dew from a blade of grass Clearing out of the path of a beetle 10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from? Seafaring Tailoring Gardening Capentry 11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration? "I offered him a Crumb," "Than Oars divide the Ocean," "He glanced with rapid eyes," "And ate the fellow, raw," 12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry? To indicate repetition and interjection To replace semicolons To indicate enjambment To substitute for periods 13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble? The rewriting of a family narrative The reminiscence of a summer afternoon The retelling of a ghost story The recreation of a crime scene 14 What meter does the poem make use of? Lines of iambic pentameter Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter Lines of trochaic octameter Lines of dactylic hexameter 15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird? Dull Murderous Too complex to categorize Noble 16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza? A snake A rowboat and butterflies The ocean The sun and a swarm of bees 17 When does the climax of the poem occur? When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees When the bird drinks dew When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight When the bird consumes the worm 18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to? A protractor A ruler A worm found only on sandy beaches A worm used for bait fishing 19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem? The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb The bird's rapidly moving eyes The bird's graceful flight home 20 What is a major theme in the poem? The curiosity of children The unknowability of nature The pain of unrequited love The dangers of the ocean 21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem? A rowboat The worm A whale Butterflies 22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem? "Saw" and "raw" "Grass" and "pass" "Walk" and "halves" "Seam" and "swim" 23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work? Reference other poets Segment individual images Alter the rhyme scheme Shift the meaning of individual words 24 What does the bird's final flight represent? The difficulty of returning home Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding The dangers of the natural world The speaker's desire to be free 25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work? Elizabeth Bishop Walt Whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe