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