A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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

The daughter's thoughts

The daughter's friends

The daughter's artworks
2 Which of the following contains understatement?
"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"

"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,"
3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree?
Rootedness in place

Sublime beauty

Physical strength and size

Age and wisdom
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Octets

Sestets

Quintains

Quatrains
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Jar lid

Blanket

Curtain

Eyelid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Prayer

Daydream

Monument

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

Stability

Memorability

Sublimity
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"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"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC

ABACDCAB

ABABCDCD
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Trimeter

Trochaic Hexameter

Iambic Pentameter

Spondaic Monometer
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Frightening

Burdening

Stopping

Observing
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 in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is not yet born

She is very young and asleep
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
The changing seasons

Nature's wrath

Danger and extremes

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

Queen Victoria

Cleopatra

Aphrodite
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

The Tower of London

Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Upset

Uncertain

Mistrustful

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

Bluntness

Tradition

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

The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

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

The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions
22 Who is the poem's speaker?
A mother with a sick child

A version of W.B. Yeats himself

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

A martyr for Irish independence before his execution
23 What is a linnet?
A baby

A nightgown

A candle

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

Reason

Heat

Generosity
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"May she be granted beauty"

"though every face should scowl"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

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