A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1892

1846

1848
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?
ABBC

ABBA

ABAB

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

Couplets

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Emily Brontë
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

The rising sun

A lake

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

Eighteen

Four

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Love sonnet
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Little Women

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth
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

A celestial being

May's father

The birds
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A mountain peak

A steep bank

A forest

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

Three

One

Two
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Cold but humorous

Bright and hurried

Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy
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 the sun sets

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?
Thorton

Dorset

Liverpool

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

Trees

Birds

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

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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