To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Bold

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

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Generous

Poor

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

Defamation

Rude statement

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

"when the day is spent"

"insult heaped upon him"

"given their children's children"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Personification

Apostrophe

Understatement

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

Maud Gonne

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
Whether to look upon your monument

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

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

Awning

Curtain

Ghost
11 The poem as a whole is centered around which device?
Zeugma

End rhyme

Anaphora

Apostrophe
12 In which city is the poem set?
Dublin

Belfast

London

Manchester
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?
Angry

Ghostly

Luxurious

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

Lie

Wonder

Move quickly
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
L

G

N

T
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Tall

Snobbish

High-minded

Wealthy
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Exhilarated

Patient

Pitying

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

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

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

Helpful

Amount

Crowd-pleasing
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A holiday

A mythological character

A political party

A cemetery
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Dublin's middle class

Yeats

The speaker

Parnell and Lane
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBCDD

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABACDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

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

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."

"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?
Dramatic irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony

Verbal irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Crown

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

Castle

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