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?

Repeated refrains

Elaborate rhyme schemes

Acrostics

Short, clipped lines
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?

4

1

3

7
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABAABABA

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABCBADCD

ABBAABBACDCCDC
4 Which of the following is not a metaphorical motif in the poem?

Medicine and hospitals

Ships and navigation

Weapons and war

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

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The ocean and land

The speaker and the fisherman

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

They are sestets

They are couplets

They are quatrains

They differ in length
7 What is meant by the word "torpedo"?

To get rid of or move away from something

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

A species of prehistoric sea creature

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century
8 In which language was this poem originally written?

Italian

Portuguese

Spanish

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

Abhor

Absence

Abyss

Sunbeam
10 What is the poem's meter?

It has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic hexameter

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

F

S

I

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

Alliteration

Simile

Sibilance

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

That the tuna is strong

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is shiny

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

A South American brand of truck

A platform that holds a coffin

A marine ecosystem

A crown worn by royalty
15 Which of the following best describes an ode?

A poem written in the second person

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object

A poem that takes the form of a dialogue between two individuals
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

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

Reverent

Tired

Fearful

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

Purposeful

Fast

Strong

Careful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

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

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

"once seed to sea-quake, /tidal wave..."

"your flanks and prow / black / and slippery..."
20 Which is not a theme of this poem?

Animals and interspecies relationships

Marriage

Human consumption

Death
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?

Innocence and inexperience

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Cruelty and brutality

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

Unknowable

Undesirable

Inedible

Unbeatable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

An unidentified person

A tuna

A fisherman

A child
24 Which of the following statements is true?

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

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

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

The speaker admires the tuna's range and depth of experiences
25 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The speaker's anger at the tuna

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

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

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

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