To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Lively

Restless

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

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Helpless

Generous

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

Rude statement

Retort

Defamation
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"

"given their children's children"

"foul mouth"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?
Understatement

Personification

Simile

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

A gallerist

Charles Parnell
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Charles Parnell

William Gladstone

Maud Gonne

James Joyce
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Ghost

Curtain

Sunglasses

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

Apostrophe

Anaphora

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

London

Belfast

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

Skinny

Ghostly

Luxurious
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Lie

Move quickly

Gossip

Wonder
15 Which sounds create alliteration in the line "gather the Glasnevin coverlet"?
G

N

T

L
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
Snobbish

High-minded

Wealthy

Tall
17 Which of the following describes the poem's tone?
Wondering

Pitying

Exhilarated

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

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Foreshadowing
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Helpful

Amount

Selfish

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

A cemetery

A mythological character

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

Yeats

Parnell and Lane

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

AABBCC

ABBACDDC

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

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

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

"Away, away! You are safer in the tomb."
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?
Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

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

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

Castle

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