This Is Just To Say Quizzes

This Is Just To Say Quiz

1 What is the tone of the poem?

Dark and moody

Cynical and sharp

Straightforward and regretful

Happy and upbeat
2 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

Oranges

The kitchen sink

The icebox

Apples
3 What style was Williams seeking to imitate?

Bashō's haikus about autumn

Gary Snyder's poems about the North Cascades mountain range

A note left on the kitchen counter by his wife

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

Complex metaphors

A prominent inclusion of dashes

Elaborate wordplay

The use of enjambment
5 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Three

Four

Eighteen

Six
6 What do plums represent in the poem?

The speaker's love for his wife

Everyday pleasures

Religious guilt

Farm labor
7 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"so sweet"

"you were probably"

"and which"

"I have eaten"
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral poetry

War epic

Imagist poetry

Erasure poetry
9 What is the poem's setting?

A doctor's office

The speaker's kitchen

An orchard

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

The poem is a sonnet.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is a villanelle.

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

Plums

Apples

Pears

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

It refers to an ice skating rink.

It is a colloquial term for a meat locker.

It refers to an ice chest.

It is an older term for refrigerator.
13 What is the poem's main conflict?

The speaker's marital struggles

The speaker's guilt over eating plums

The speaker's inability to cook

The speaker's struggle to not eat apples
14 When does the poem's climax occur?

In the third stanza

Before the poem has begun

In the first stanza

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

The speaker describes the icebox like a vast arctic tundra

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

The speaker compares his consumption of the plums to a buglarly

The speaker confesses his consumption of the plums like a crime
16 What type of stanza does the poem have?

Quintains

Quatrains

Octaves

Monostiches
17 What is a recurring motif in the poem?

Regret

Envy

Happiness

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

Taste

Time

Guilt

Communication
19 When was the poem published?

1988

1938

1933

1983
20 Which of the following poets also used enjambment prominently in their work?

Jennifer O'Grady

Billy Collins

Tony Hoagland

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

Sweet

Cold

Delicious

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

To highlight his lack of enjoyment of them

To show the lingering memory it left behind

To reveal that he feels no guilt

To describe their unremarkable flavor
23 What is the title of Tony Hoagland's poem about space travel?

"Jet"

"Booster Rockets"

"Rocket Fuel"

"Lift Off"
24 In her poem "Moths," what does Jennifer O'Grady depict?

Moths fluttering around a back-porch lightbulb

A mother–daughter relationship

The speaker's fear of the dark

Moths emerging from cocoons
25 Which term best characterizes the style of the poem?

Direct

Mysterious

Opaque

Baroque

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