A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1892

1846

1848

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
Summer and autumn

May and December

May and June

January and February
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

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

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Lilacs

Heather

Roses

Daffodils
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
A lake

Singing birds

The rising sun

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Nine

Eleven

Eighteen

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Elizabeth

Jane and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

A celestial being

May's father

June
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A forest

A mountain peak

A steep bank

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Two

One

Three

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Gardening in her backyard

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine
23 Where was Brontë born?
Dorset

Thorton

Liverpool

Manchester
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Flowers

A pile of rocks

Birds

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

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