Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?
Center

Tower

Muck

Ocean
2 Who is Hades?
An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The Greek god of the underworld
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Quintains

Octaves

Tercets

Sestets
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Possessed

Understood

Tricked

Created
5 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

It does not follow a traditional form

Sonnet

Sestina
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Extremely human-like

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Very large

Animal-like and instinctive
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A multi-story Ottoman mansion
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Night

Curtain

Ghost

Tent
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Monkey

Clean

Opera

Burn
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The marbles

The bobbin

The domes

The moon
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Metal forgeries

Rivers to the underworld

Narrow alleyways

Members of the royal court
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABABCBCDC

ABBACDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Personification

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Dart

Equivocate

Hide

Blink
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A type of Byzantine church

A wormlike creature from Greek myth
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"cannot singe a sleeve"

"Night resonance recedes"

"mire or blood"

"moonlit dome disdains"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Easter Orthodox theology

Greek myth

Celtic legend

Ottoman history
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
trance

bough

none of these are onomatopoetic

singe
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
The spiritual world

Family

War

The physical world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
5

3

2

4

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