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