A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1846

1848

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and December

May and June

Summer and autumn

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

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves

Couplets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse

A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature
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"?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

George Eliot
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Lilacs

Roses

Heather

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

Gray rocks

The rising sun

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eleven

Eighteen

Nine

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

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

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

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

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

Little Women

Villette

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Winter

Summer

Fall

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

June

The birds

May's father
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A mountain peak

A steep bank

A seaside jetty

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Two

Six

Three

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

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

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

Dorset

Manchester

Thorton
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Birds

Flowers

Trees

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

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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