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To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Lively

Bold
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?
Helpless

Poor

Generous

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

Abuse

Defamation

Rude statement
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?
Simile

Personification

Understatement

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?
Charles Parnell

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?
James Joyce

William Gladstone

Maud Gonne

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

The pack upon him.

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet
10 What is the meaning of the word "Shade" as used in this poem?
Ghost

Sunglasses

Awning

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

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Anaphora
12 In which city is the poem set?
London

Dublin

Belfast

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

Ghostly

Angry

Luxurious
14 What does the word "flit" mean?
Move quickly

Lie

Wonder

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

N

G

L
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?
High-minded

Tall

Wealthy

Snobbish
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."
Hyperbole

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Selfish

Amount

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

A holiday

A mythological character

A cemetery
21 Who is/are the poem's protagonist(s)?
Yeats

Dublin's middle class

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

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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

Situational irony

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Castle

Autobiography

Crown

Public Sculpture

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