A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1905

1892

1848

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

Summer and autumn

May and June

May and December

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

ABBC

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse

A dark evening in a forest
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

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

Roses

Heather

Lilacs

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

Gray rocks

Singing birds

The rising sun

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eighteen

Nine

Four

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry

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

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

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

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Little Women
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Summer

Spring

Fall

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

May's father

June

A celestial being

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

A mountain peak

A forest

A seaside jetty

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

One

Six

Three

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

Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

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

When May marries June

When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion
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 end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

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

Manchester

Thorton

Dorset

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

Flowers

A pile of rocks

Birds

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

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