A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1905

1846

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

January and February

May and June

Summer and autumn

May and December
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"Is on the surface seen!"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Daffodils

Roses

Lilacs

Heather
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?

Singing birds

Gray rocks

A lake

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Nine

Eleven

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Middlemarch

Little Women
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Fall

Summer

Spring

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?

June

May's father

The birds

A celestial being
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?

A forest

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

A steep bank
18 How many voices does the poem have?

Six

Two

Three

One
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?

Manchester

Liverpool

Thorton

Dorset
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?

Trees

Flowers

Birds

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

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