A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1848

1892

1846

1905
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?

ABBA

ABCB

ABBC

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Sestets

Couplets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

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

Lilacs

Roses

Daffodils

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

Gray rocks

A lake

The rising sun

Singing birds
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Four

Eleven

Nine

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry
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"?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Fall

Summer

Winter

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

May's father

A celestial being

The birds

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

A seaside jetty

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?

Three

One

Two

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

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

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

Gardening in her backyard

A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June
23 Where was Brontë born?

Thorton

Manchester

Liverpool

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

Trees

Flowers

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

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