A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1846

1905

1848

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

Summer and autumn

January and February

May and December

May and June
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB

ABBC
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake

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

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

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

Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

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?

The rising sun

A lake

Gray rocks

Singing birds
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eleven

Nine

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Elizabeth

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

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Middlemarch

Little Women
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Winter

Fall

Summer

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

June

May's father

A celestial being

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

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?

Six

Three

One

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

Bright and hurried

Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets

When May marries June
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 speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

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

Liverpool

Dorset

Manchester

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

Flowers

Trees

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

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