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I Started Early — Took My Dog — Quiz

1 What is the first image the speaker encounters?
Frigates

Mermaids

Whales

Krakens
2 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Until We met the Solid Town –"

"Extended Hempen Hands –"

"Went past my simple Shoe –"

"But no Man moved Me – till the Tide"
3 What kind of ship does the speaker see in the second stanza of the poem?
Luxury liners

Submarines

Frigates

Rowboats
4 What words best describe the emotional shift of the poem?
Wonder to fear

Anger to panic

Anxiety to comfort

Happiness to despair
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A coral reef

The beach

A harbor

The deck of a ship
6 Which of the following things is personified as man in the poem?
Mermaids

The ocean

Seagulls

A whaling ship
7 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The speaker's dog

The frigates

The mermaids

The speaker
8 What is the most famous story about mermaids?
"The Little Mermaid"

"The Sea Lady"

"Creature from the Black Lagoon"

"Undine"
9 How many stanzas does the poem have?
3

12

6

2
10 Which of the following is the Scottish iteration of the mermaid myth?
Sea nymphs

Selkies

Sirens

Salamanders
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
None

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB
12 Who wrote the The Little Mermaid?
Emily Dickinson

Hans Christian Anderson

Herman Melville

H.G. Wells
13 What grabs the speaker?
The tide of the ocean

The hands of a mermaid

Ropes from a frigate

The arms of a man
14 What word best describes the tone of the poem?
Confident

Uneasy

Serene

Insecure
15 To what does the speaker compare being devoured by the ocean?
A needle in a haystack

A dewdrop on a dandelion sleeve

A bee in a hive

A grain of a sand in the desert
16 What effect does personification NOT have in the poem?
Captures the volatility and danger of the water

Showcases the range of emotions the ocean can elicit

Articulates the fears women had about their safety and wellbeing

Describes the way the light bounces off of the surface of a wave
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The arrival of the speaker's dog

The speaker's attempt to escape the water

The speaker feeling like a mouse

The speaker seeing the mermaids
18 The lines "And Frigates – in the Upper Floor / Extended Hempen Hands" contain which of the following?
Personification

Irony

Understatment

Onomatopoeia
19 When was the poem published?
1861

1955

1981

1891
20 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The speaker's dog

The masculine ocean

The mermaids

The hempen hands
21 What best describes the poem's genre?
Light verse

Limerick

Nature poetry

Romantic poetry
22 How does the line "I felt his Silver Heel" function in the poem's fourth stanza?
It shows the creature that has been hiding the waves

It reveals the speaker as an unreliable narrator

It underscores class

It connotes danger and panic
23 How does the poem end?
With the departure of a ship

With the speaker's narrow escape

With the swimming of mermaids

With the speaker's demise
24 What does Dickinson refer to with the phrase "hempen hands"?
Ropes aboard a ship

Rock on the beach

The hands of sea creature

The pull of the waves
25 What mythological creature does the poem allude to?
Sea serpents

Leviathan

Mermaids

The Loch Ness Monster

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