Ode to My Suit Quizzes

Ode to My Suit Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of the poem addressing?

His wife

His suit

Himself

His enemy
2 What technique does the poem use to make the reading flow?

Allusion

Hyperbole

Enjambment

Rhyming
3 The verb “waiting” in the poem is an example of

Palinode

Personification

Pastiche

Parody
4 The repetition of what adds cadence to the poem?

Interjections

Infinitives

Gerunds

Participles
5 What figure of speech is “you flap and hum/as if you were my soul”?

Simile

Synecdoche

Irony

Metonymy
6 Which challenge do the speaker and the suit NOT face together?

Dirt

Night

Wind

Struggle
7 What does the word “Still” mean in this poem?

nevertheless; all the same

not moving or making a sound

deep silence and calm

happening before now and continuing into the present
8 Which qualifier does the poem repeat at the end?

Usually

Probably

Maybe

Possibly
9 Which adjective does NOT describe the speaker’s relationship with the suit?

Distant

Secure

Intimate

Routined
10 How does the speaker assume he and his suit will die?

Soon

Apart

Never

Together
11 The repetition of “simple,” “sick” and “suit” is an example of

Sibilance

Acrostic

Rhyme

Pastiche
12 Which is NOT an example of alliteration in the poem?

darkness/dream

walk/work

suit/sock

people/phantoms
13 What time of day is described twice in the poem?

Morning

Midnight

Afternoon

Evening
14 Where did Neruda’s first Odes appear?

Chapbook

Television

Radio

Newspaper
15 The form of the poem is:

Iambic Pentameter

Free verse

Sonnet

Soliloquy
16 What was Neruda’s political party?

Royalist

Republican

Communist

Fascist
17 What was Neruda’s native country?

Brazil

Argentina

Chile

Venezuela
18 How did Neruda (most likely) die?

Old Age

Murder

Cancer

Heart Attack
19 The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a line is called

Allegory

Anapest

Anaphora

Anachronism
20 Wearing his suit allows the speaker to

Get a job

Walk

Conduct business

Dance
21 The speaker greets his suit with

Joy

Trepidation

Respect

Indifference
22 The speaker compares his suit to

His skin

His bones

His wife

His soul
23 What does the speaker imagine his suit getting stained by?

Tears

Mud

Sweat

Blood
24 The speaker forgets the suit because

They are one being

He is naked

He changes his clothes

It is dead
25 Where does the suit wait overnight for the speaker?

Chair

Dresser

Bureau

Closet

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