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Echo Quiz

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

quatrain

sextilla

villanelle

sestina
2 A sextilla has how many stanzas?

4

6

5

3
3 What are the historical origins of the sextilla

medieval French

medieval British

modern English

medieval Spanish
4 In a sextilla, how many line are in a stanza?

4

6

3

5
5 What is the rhyme scheme of a sextilla?

ABABCC

ABCBAB

AABBCC

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

Alliteration

Anaphora

Hyperbole

Imagery
7 In what year was "Echo" published?

1855

1863

1867

1862
8 "Speaking silence" is an example of what type of irony?

litotes

anaphora

oxymoron

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

litotes

assonance

alliteration

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

Leaves of Grass

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Paradise Lost

Songs of Innocence
11 "Echo" references which other literary work?

Paradise Lost

The Cantos

Goblin Market

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

Victorian

Romantic

Renaissance

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

Medieval

Renaissance

Victorian

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

life, memory

death, life

memory, dreams

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

Allegory

symbol

motif

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

8

7

9

6
17 Memory is compared to what?

a stream

eyes

brightness

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

metaphor

comparison

simile

litotes
19 Oxymoron is a type of ______.

simile

alliteration

metaphor

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

longing

loud

happy

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

assonance

synecdoche

metonymy

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

bargaining

pleading

direct address

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

fades with time

repeats endlessly

can be heard

is loud
24 Sleep gets conflated with death in which other piece of literature?

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

Frozen

King Lear
25 The speaker is the poem's ________.

Antagonist

Topic

Subject

Protagonist

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