To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

1 What does the word "Unquiet" mean in the poem?
Lively

Bold

Restless

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?
Dactylic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter
3 What does "open-handed" mean in the poem's context?
Poor

Generous

Helpless

Transparent
4 What does the word "insult" most closely mean in the poem's context?
Abuse

Defamation

Retort

Rude statement
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Apostrophe

Understatement

Personification

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Maud Gonne

William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

Whether to look upon your monument

The pack upon him.
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Ghost

Awning

Sunglasses

Curtain
11 The poem as a whole is centered around which device?
Anaphora

Apostrophe

Zeugma

End rhyme
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Dublin

Manchester

Belfast
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Luxurious

Skinny

Ghostly

Angry
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Gossip

Move quickly

Wonder

Lie
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
N

T

L

G
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Wealthy

Snobbish

Tall

High-minded
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Exhilarated

Pitying

Patient

Wondering
18 Which literary device appears in the phrase "Sweeter emotion, working in their veins/Like gentle blood."
Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Hyperbole
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Selfish

Crowd-pleasing

Helpful

Amount
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A cemetery

A holiday

A mythological character

A political party
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Parnell and Lane

Yeats

Dublin's middle class

The speaker
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBACDDC

ABACDC

ABBCDD

AABBCC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony

Dramatic irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Autobiography

Public Sculpture

Castle

Crown

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