The Song of Wandering Aengus Quizzes

The Song of Wandering Aengus Quiz

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

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy
2 This poem is representative of which movement?
Postmodernism

First-generation Romanticism

The Irish Literary Revival

The New York School
3 The phrase "a fire was in my head" is a metaphor meaning what?
That the speaker is full of brilliant ideas

That the speaker is feeling stupid

That the speaker is angry

That the speaker is feeling emotional and passionate
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
5 Yeats compares the stars to which of the following?
Moths

Berries

Lanterns

Scales
6 How many stanzas are in the poem?
2

1

4

3
7 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "kiss her lips"?
I

E

S

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

Personification

Metaphor

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

Despairing

Didactic

Exhausted
10 Which of the following is NOT associated with Aengus?
War

Youth

Poetry

Love
11 Which of the following is not a major theme of this work?
Childhood

Nature

Aging

Love
12 What does fire most clearly symbolize in this work?
Passion

Home

War

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

"And cut and peeled a hazel wand"

"It had become a glimmering girl"

"I went to blow the fire a-flame"
14 How long are the poem's stanzas?
Four lines (quatrains)

Six lines (sestets)

Two lines (couplets)

Eight lines (octaves)
15 Which of the following describes the poem's mood?
Cozy

Dreamlike

Witty

Glamorous
16 Which is an instance of irony?
The fact that Aengus becomes more sure of his success the longer his quest takes

The sudden transformation of the fish into a woman

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?
"Because a fire was in my head"

"Through hollow lands and hilly lands"

"And when white moths were on the wing"

"With apple blossom in her hair"
18 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?
Peeled

Dappled

Rustled

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

An Irish revolutionary assassinated by British forces

The Irish god of love and youth
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABAB

ABACDEDF

ABBACDDE

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

Ireland, in a mythical past

A ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

The Tower of London
22 Which is an example of hyperbole?
The repeated evocation of the natural world

The speaker's perseverance in the face of adversity

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
23 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Oranges

Apples

Acorns

Ivy
24 In what year was this work published?
1881

2003

1897

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

The Tower

The Wind Among the Reeds

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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