A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A rowboat

A bird

A worm

A blade of grass
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets

Monostiches
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Unusual text alignment

Dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Depressed and somber

Whimsical and bright

Cautious and curious

Plucky and determined
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Seven

Two

Five

Ten
6 When was the poem published?
1918

1861

1891

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

Seeds

A butterfly

A worm
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Staring at her

Flying home

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?
Tailoring

Seafaring

Capentry

Gardening
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection

To replace semicolons

To substitute for periods
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The retelling of a ghost story

The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Noble

Murderous

Too complex to categorize

Dull
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A rowboat and butterflies

A snake

The ocean

The sun and a swarm of bees
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

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
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A protractor

A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A ruler
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb

The bird's graceful flight home
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The pain of unrequited love

The dangers of the ocean

The unknowability of nature

The curiosity of children
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A rowboat

A whale

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?
Alter the rhyme scheme

Shift the meaning of individual words

Segment individual images

Reference other poets
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?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

Elizabeth Bishop

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