Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quizzes

Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market Quiz

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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?

1

3

7

4
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABCBADCD

AABAABABA

ABBAABBACDCCDC

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

Medicine and hospitals

Ships and navigation

Nature

Weapons and war
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 couplets

They differ in length

They are quatrains

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

A popular food brand in the mid-twentieth century

A type of weapon that reaches its target through water

To get rid of or move away from something

A species of prehistoric sea creature
8 In which language was this poem originally written?

French

Spanish

Portuguese

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

Abhor

Sunbeam

Absence

Abyss
10 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter

Dactylic pentameter

Spondaic hexameter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?

A

F

I

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

Alliteration

Sibilance

Simile

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

That the tuna is artificial

That the tuna is shiny

That the tuna is elusive

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

A marine ecosystem

A South American brand of truck

A crown worn by royalty

A platform that holds a coffin
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 symbolize the speaker's wealth

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They offer a contrast with the tuna

They bring taste-based imagery to the work
17 Which word best describes the poem's tone?

Reverent

Disgusted

Tired

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

Fast

Careful

Strong

Purposeful
19 Which phrase contains prominent use of assonance?

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

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

“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

Human consumption

Animals and interspecies relationships

Death
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?

Cruelty and brutality

Luxury and expense

Innocence and inexperience

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness
22 What does the word "unfathomable" most closely mean when used in the poem?

Unbeatable

Inedible

Undesirable

Unknowable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

A child

A fisherman

An unidentified person

A tuna
24 Which of the following statements is true?

The speaker is increasingly frustrated that the tuna cannot communicate

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

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
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 tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

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

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