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?
Dactylic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

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

Transparent

Helpless

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

Abuse

Rude statement

Retort
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?
"given their children's children"

"when the day is spent"

"insult heaped upon him"

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

Apostrophe

Simile

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

An unidentified Dubliner
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
Charles Parnell

James Joyce

William Gladstone

Maud Gonne
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?
And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

Whether to look upon your monument

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

Awning

Ghost

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

End rhyme

Anaphora

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?
Belfast

Manchester

Dublin

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

Skinny

Angry

Ghostly
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Wonder

Move quickly

Gossip

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

L

N

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

High-minded

Snobbish

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

Patient

Wondering

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

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole
19 What does the word "serving" mean in the poem's context?
Crowd-pleasing

Amount

Helpful

Selfish
20 What does the word "Glasnevin" refer to?
A holiday

A political party

A cemetery

A mythological character
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

ABBACDDC

AABBCC

ABACDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"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?
The line is not ironic

Situational irony

Verbal irony

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

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

Crown

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