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Echo Quiz

1 "Echo" is a type of poem called a ________.

villanelle

sextilla

sestina

quatrain
2 A sextilla has how many stanzas?

5

4

6

3
3 What are the historical origins of the sextilla

medieval Spanish

medieval French

medieval British

modern English
4 In a sextilla, how many line are in a stanza?

6

5

4

3
5 What is the rhyme scheme of a sextilla?

AABBCC

ABCBCA

ABCBAB

ABABCC
6 In "Echo," the repetition of the phrase "come to me" is an example of ___________.

Imagery

Anaphora

Hyperbole

Alliteration
7 In what year was "Echo" published?

1862

1867

1855

1863
8 "Speaking silence" is an example of what type of irony?

litotes

anaphora

assonance

oxymoron
9 The repetition of "s" in "speaking silence" is called _________.

assonance

litotes

anaphora

alliteration
10 What was the name of the volume in which "Echo" was published?

Songs of Innocence

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Paradise Lost

Leaves of Grass
11 "Echo" references which other literary work?

The Cantos

Goblin Market

Paradise Lost

Leaves of Grass
12 Christina Rossetti wrote at the end of which literary period?

Victorian

Medieval

Romantic

Renaissance
13 Christina Rossetti is said to belong to which literary period?

Romantic

Renaissance

Victorian

Medieval
14 The speaker of the poem chooses _____ over ______.

death, life

life, memory

dreams, memory

memory, dreams
15 Dreaming functions as what in the poem?

symbol

Allegory

motif

allusion
16 A sextilla conventionally has how many syllables per line?

9

6

8

7
17 Memory is compared to what?

eyes

the sun

brightness

a stream
18 "Cheeks and eyes as bright as sun shining on a stream" is an example of ______

simile

litotes

comparison

metaphor
19 Oxymoron is a type of ______.

metaphor

alliteration

simile

irony
20 The tone of the poem can be best described as ______.

bright

happy

loud

longing
21 "Pulse for pulse, breath for breath" is an example of ________.

alliteration

synecdoche

assonance

metonymy
22 "Come to me" is a form of _____

direct address

rhetoric

bargaining

pleading
23 An echo is like a memory because it _______.

fades with time

is loud

can be heard

repeats endlessly
24 Sleep gets conflated with death in which other piece of literature?

King Lear

Macbeth

Frozen

Romeo and Juliet
25 The speaker is the poem's ________.

Protagonist

Topic

Antagonist

Subject

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