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?

Acrostics

Elaborate rhyme schemes

Short, clipped lines

Repeated refrains
2 How many stanzas are in the poem?

4

7

1

3
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABBAABBACDCCDC

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABCBADCD

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

Medicine and hospitals

Nature

Weapons and war

Ships and navigation
5 Which of the following are juxtaposed in the poem?

The ocean and land

The outdoor market and the supermarket

The tuna and its prey

The speaker and the fisherman
6 How long are the poem's stanzas?

They are sestets

They differ in length

They are couplets

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

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

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

French

Portuguese

Italian

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

Sunbeam

Abyss

Abhor

Absence
10 What is the poem's meter?

Dactylic pentameter

Spondaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no regular meter
11 Which sound creates alliteration in the line "sappy as a sprung fir"?

F

A

I

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

Anaphora

Simile

Sibilance

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

That the tuna is elusive

That the tuna is strong

That the tuna is artificial

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

A marine ecosystem

A platform that holds a coffin

A South American brand of truck

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

A poem persuading an addressee

A poem written in the second person

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

A poem praising or addressing an individual or object
16 What role do images of vegetables play in the poem?

They bring taste-based imagery to the work

They offer clues about the nearby terrain and society

They offer a contrast with the tuna

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

Tired

Disgusted

Reverent

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

Purposeful

Careful

Fast

Strong
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?

Human consumption

Death

Marriage

Animals and interspecies relationships
21 What does the tuna most closely symbolize?

Knowledge, experience, and worldliness

Cruelty and brutality

Luxury and expense

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

Inedible

Undesirable

Unbeatable

Unknowable
23 Who is the poem's speaker?

A child

A tuna

An unidentified person

A fisherman
24 Which of the following statements is true?

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

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

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

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

The tuna's desire to be caught and eaten

The merchant's unwillingness to sell his prize catch

The speaker's anger at the tuna

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