A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1892

1905

1846

1848
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?
ABCB

ABBA

ABBC

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
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"?
George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

Christina Rossetti
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

A lake

Gray rocks

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eleven

Four

Eighteen

Nine
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse

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

Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Middlemarch

Little Women

Wuthering Heights

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Spring

Winter

Fall

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

May's father

June

A celestial being
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A mountain peak

A forest

A steep bank

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

Two

One

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

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 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?
Dorset

Manchester

Thorton

Liverpool
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

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

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