This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?

Dark and moody

Happy and upbeat

Straightforward and regretful

Cynical and sharp
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Oranges

The icebox

The kitchen sink

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Shakespeare's love sonnets
4 What is a major stylistic feature of the poem?

The use of enjambment

Elaborate wordplay

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Complex metaphors
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Three

Eighteen

Six

Four
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

Everyday pleasures

The speaker's love for his wife

Farm labor

Religious guilt
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"I have eaten"

"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Erasure poetry

Pastoral poetry

War epic

Imagist poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

The speaker's farm

An orchard

A doctor's office

The speaker's kitchen
10 What is the poem's form and meter?

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is a haiku.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a villanelle.
11 What fruit does the speaker guiltily consume?

Apples

Plums

Peaches

Pears
12 What does the word "icebox" refer to?

It refers to an ice chest.

It is an older term for refrigerator.

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's guilt over eating plums
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the second stanza

In the first stanza
15 What role does understatement play in the poem?

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime

The speaker imagines his wife's anger like a tidal wave

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Quatrains

Quintains

Monostiches

Octaves
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Frustration

Envy

Regret

Happiness
18 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Taste

Guilt

Time

Communication
19 When was the poem published?

1988

1983

1933

1938
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?

Billy Collins

Jennifer O'Grady

Tony Hoagland

All of the following
21 Which of the following words does the speaker NOT use to describe the taste of the plums?

Delicious

Cold

Saccharine

Sweet
22 Why does the speaker end with a description of the plums' taste?

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To describe their unremarkable flavor

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?

"Lift Off"

"Booster Rockets"

"Jet"

"Rocket Fuel"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

Moths emerging from cocoons

A mother–daughter relationship

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

The speaker's fear of the dark
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?

Baroque

Direct

Mysterious

Opaque

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