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

"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."

"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?
Sublime beauty

Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size

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

Alliteration

Metonymy

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

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience

Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable

Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Quatrains

Quintains

Octets

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

Eyelid

Curtain

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

Brook

Daydream

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

Stability

Artistry

Sublimity
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"the storm is howling"

"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"

"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCDCD

ABBACDDC

ABACDCAB

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

Iambic Pentameter

Iambic Trimeter

Trochaic Hexameter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Burdening

Observing

Frightening

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

Hyperbole

Understatement

Synecdoche
15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place?
She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is very young and asleep

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?
The changing seasons

Danger and extremes

Agricultural abundance

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

Helen of Troy

Aphrodite

Cleopatra
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?
Mistrustful

Uncertain

Disorganized

Upset
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Politeness

Bluntness

Nobility

Tradition
21 Which of the following is true of the poem?
The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes

The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth

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 version of W.B. Yeats himself

A mother with a sick child

A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child

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

A baby

A bird

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

Overstatement

Heat

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

"May she be granted beauty"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"though every face should scowl"

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