A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1892

1848

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
Summer and autumn

May and December

May and June

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

ABBA

ABBC

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest

A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Heather

Lilacs

Roses

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

A lake

Singing birds

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Nine

Eleven

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

Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

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

Spring

Winter

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

A celestial being

May's father

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

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

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

Liverpool

Thorton

Manchester
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Trees

A pile of rocks

Flowers

Birds
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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