The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

1 The phrase "moth-like stars" is an instance of what?
Simile

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Metonymy
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
Postmodernism

The New York School

First-generation Romanticism

The Irish Literary Revival
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is angry

That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate

That the speaker is feeling stupid
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Berries

Scales

Lanterns

Moths
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
3

2

4

1
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
S

E

K

I
8 The phrase "The golden apples of the sun" is an instance of what?
Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Understatement
9 Which best describes the poem's tone?
Despairing

Hopeful

Exhausted

Didactic
10 Which of the following is NOT associated with Aengus?
Love

War

Poetry

Youth
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Nature

Childhood

Love

Aging
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Home

War

Danger

Passion
13 Which line contains alliterative G sounds?
"And pluck till time and times are done"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Four lines (quatrains)

Two lines (couplets)

Eight lines (octaves)

Six lines (sestets)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Dreamlike

Glamorous

Witty

Cozy
16 Which is an instance of irony?
The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

The fact that Aengus becomes more sure of his success the longer his quest takes

The fact that readers know the woman will disappear before Aengus notices it

The way that the forest is a site of magical events
17 Which of the following is an instance of metonymy?
"With apple blossom in her hair"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"And when white moths were on the wing"

"Because a fire was in my head"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Rustled

Peeled

Dappled

Trout
19 Who is the poem's speaker?
The son of W.B. Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory

An orphaned boy living in Victorian Dublin

The Irish god of love and youth

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCBDEFE

ABACDEDF

ABBACDDE

ABABAB
21 Where is the poem set?
A modern Irish city

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Ireland, in a mythical past

The Tower of London
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
The speaker's ease in using natural materials to make the fishing pole

The speaker's claim that he will spend eternity with the woman

The repeated evocation of the natural world

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Acorns

Apples

Oranges

Ivy
24 In what year was this work published?
2003

1881

1897

1906
25 In which collection did this work first appear?
Sailing to Byzantium

The Tower

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

The Wind Among the Reeds

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