A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's artworks

The daughter's anxieties
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares."

"Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum,"

"Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size

Sublime beauty

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

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Metonymy
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Quatrains

Quintains

Octets

Sestets
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Blanket

Curtain

Eyelid

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

Daydream

Prayer

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

Memorability

Artistry

Stability
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"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"

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

ABBACDDC

AABBCDDC

ABACDCAB
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Spondaic Monometer

Iambic Trimeter

Trochaic Hexameter

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

Stopping

Frightening

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Understatement
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is very young and asleep

She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is not yet born
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Danger and extremes

The changing seasons

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Cleopatra

Helen of Troy

Queen Victoria

Aphrodite
18 Where is the poem set?
Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I

An Irish woodland

The Tower of London
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Disorganized

Uncertain

Upset

Mistrustful
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Nobility

Politeness

Bluntness

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth

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
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution

A mother with a sick child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself
23 What is a linnet?
A candle

A baby

A nightgown

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

Heat

Overstatement

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

"May she be granted beauty"

"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"though every face should scowl"

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