1 What does the phrase "thing with feathers" refer to? A weather balloon A personification of hopelessness A songbird A falcon 2 What is the poem's central theme? The strength of happiness The endurance of hope The looming of dread The passage of time 3 What is one of the poem's major stylistic features Free verse Unusual use of the lowercase Slant rhyme Erasure 4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration? "That perches in the soul" "That kept so many warm" "I’ve heard it in the chillest land" "And on the strangest Sea" 5 What other poet was widely known for their use of slant rhyme? W.B. Yeats John Ashbery Elizabeth Bishop Sylvia Plath 6 What is the major conflict? The bird enduring a storm Dickinson writing the poem The Civil War The speaker traversing the tundra 7 What aspect of the bird embodies hope? Its song Its flight Its perching Its migratory pattern 8 What is slant rhyme? When two words sound similar but not the same When two lines end in synonyms When two words rhyme and are italicized When a rhyme occurs in an acrostic poem 9 What is foreshadowed in the poem's first stanza? The bird singing in spite of the storm The speaker's trip to the sea The speaker's turbulent personal life The bird completing its journey to South America 10 How many stanzas are in the poem? One Three Six Twelve 11 Where does the speaker specifically reference their relationship to the bird's song? The second stanza The third stanza Throughout the poem The first stanza 12 The line “'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is an example of which of the following? Understatement Irony Personification Similie 13 Which two words are an example of slant rhyme? "Sky" and "high" "Flurry" and "scurry" "Warm" and "storm" "Flight" and "trip" 14 What description best characterizes the tone of the poem? Frustrated Frightened Optimistic Gloomy 15 What do the lines "Yet - never - in Extremity, / It asked a crumb - of me" imply about the bird's song? That the speaker only heard its song in extreme circumstances That it is given selflessly That the speaker finds the bird's song irritating That the bird only sings when its hungry 16 What does the bird's survival of the storm symbolize? Situations always improving Worrying about nature's unpredictability The strength of hope The depth of sorrow 17 What natural event puts the bird's endurance to the test? An earthquake A bolt of lightning A forest fire A powerful wind 18 When was the poem published? 1863 1981 1891 1900 19 Where is the poem set? In Lexington, Kentucky In Boston, Massachusetts In a coastal town In nature, during stormy conditions 20 What is the meaning of the word "gale" in the poem? A powerful wind A summer breeze A brief snowstorm Heavy rain 21 What does slant rhyme allow the writer to do? Change verb tense between lines Break up the punctuation of a line Maintain a rhyme scheme without needing two words to have the same ending or sound Write a poem with unique alignment 22 Who is the protagonist of the poem The speaker The wind An unnamed poet The bird 23 The phrase "never stops - at all" refers to which of the following? The speaker's well-being The speaker's admiration of the bird The bird's journey across the ocean The bird's song 24 Which of the following stylistic elements does Dickinson NOT make use of in the poem? Dashes Iambic tetrameter Parentheses Iambic trimeter 25 What type of stanzas does Dickinson use in the poem? Quatrains Rhyming couplets Octaves Sestets
