To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Loud

Restless

Bold

Lively
2 What is this poem's meter?

Iambic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

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

Poor

Helpless

Transparent

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

Rude statement

Abuse

Defamation

Retort
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?

"given their children's children"

"when the day is spent"

"foul mouth"

"insult heaped upon him"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?

Understatement

Personification

Simile

Apostrophe
7 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified Dubliner

Charles Parnell

A gallerist

A gravedigger
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

William Gladstone

Maud Gonne

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?

Sunglasses

Curtain

Ghost

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

Anaphora

End rhyme

Apostrophe

Zeugma
12 In which city is the poem set?

Manchester

Belfast

London

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Skinny

Ghostly

Angry

Luxurious
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Move quickly

Gossip

Wonder

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

T

N

G

L
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Snobbish

Wealthy

High-minded

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

Pitying

Patient

Exhilarated

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?

Helpful

Selfish

Crowd-pleasing

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

A holiday

A political party

A mythological character

A cemetery
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:"

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

"About your head till the dust stops your ear,"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?

Situational irony

Dramatic irony

Verbal irony

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

Public Sculpture

Crown

Castle

Autobiography

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