A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

1 What do the linnets represent?
The daughter's artworks

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's anxieties

The daughter's friends
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares."

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"

"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Physical strength and size

Sublime beauty

Age and wisdom

Rootedness in place
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Onomatopoeia

Metonymy

Assonance

Alliteration
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Sestets

Octets

Quatrains

Quintains
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Curtain

Eyelid

Blanket

Jar lid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Daydream

Monument

Prayer

Brook
9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life?
Memorability

Sublimity

Stability

Artistry
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind"

"the storm is howling"

"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC

ABACDCAB
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Trimeter

Spondaic Monometer

Iambic Pentameter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Frightening

Observing

Burdening

Stopping
14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Simile

Synecdoche

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is not yet born

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is very young and asleep
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Agricultural abundance

Danger and extremes

The changing seasons

Nature's wrath
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Helen of Troy

Cleopatra

Aphrodite

Queen Victoria
18 Where is the poem set?
A battlefield during World War I

The Tower of London

An Irish woodland

Dublin in 1916
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Upset

Mistrustful

Disorganized

Uncertain
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Bluntness

Nobility

Politeness

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions

The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child
23 What is a linnet?
A nightgown

A candle

A baby

A bird
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Heat

Reason

Overstatement

Generosity
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"let her think opinions are accursed."

"though every face should scowl"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"May she be granted beauty"

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