Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quizzes

Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quiz

1 Which of the following is a formal characteristic of the poem?

Short, clipped lines

Elaborate rhyme schemes

Repeated refrains

Acrostics
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?

3

4

7

1
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABBAABBACDCCDC

AABAABABA

ABCBADCD

It has no regular rhyme scheme
4 Which of the following is not a metaphorical motif in the poem?

Weapons and war

Ships and navigation

Medicine and hospitals

Nature
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The speaker and the fisherman

The ocean and land

The tuna and its prey
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?

They are sestets

They are quatrains

They differ in length

They are couplets
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?

A species of prehistoric sea creature

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century

To get rid of or move away from something

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water
8 In which language was this poem originally written?

Spanish

Italian

French

Portuguese
9 What does the french word abîme, used in this poem, most closely translate to?

Abyss

Abhor

Absence

Sunbeam
10 What is the poem's meter?

Spondaic hexameter

It has no regular meter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?

F

A

S

I
12 The phrase "fins fletched" is an example of which of the following?

Sibilance

Simile

Anaphora

Alliteration
13 What does the poet most likely want to convey with the word "varnished"?

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is strong
14 What does the word "catafalque" mean?

A crown worn by royalty

A marine ecosystem

A South American brand of truck

A platform that holds a coffin
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?

A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They symbolize the speaker's wealth
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?

Tired

Reverent

Fearful

Disgusted
18 Which of the following does NOT describe the tuna as the narrator imagines it?

Careful

Strong

Fast

Purposeful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

"always renewed, / locked into the current..."

"your flanks and prow / black / and slippery..."

“only you / lived through / the sea's truth…”

"once seed to sea-quake, /tidal wave..."
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?

Marriage

Animals and interspecies relationships

Human consumption

Death
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?

Luxury and expense

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Cruelty and brutality

Innocence and inexperience
22 What does the word "unfathomable" most closely mean when used in the poem?

Inedible

Unknowable

Unbeatable

Undesirable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

An unidentified person

A fisherman

A tuna

A child
24 Which of the following statements is true?

The speaker wants to buy the tuna, but cannot afford seafood

The speaker admires the tuna's range and depth of experiences

The speaker is afraid of the tuna, though less so by the poem's end

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The speaker's insistence that death is merely a new experience for the tuna

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