To a Shade Quizzes

To a Shade Quiz Vocabulary and Poetic Form

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

Bold

Restless

Lively

Loud
2 What is this poem's meter?

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactylic Pentameter

Anapestic Pentameter

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

Helpless

Generous

Transparent

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

Defamation

Retort

Abuse

Rude statement
5 Which of the following phrases does not feature assonance?

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

"insult heaped upon him"

"when the day is spent"
6 A description of houses as "gaunt" uses which device?

Apostrophe

Personification

Understatement

Simile
7 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified Dubliner

A gravedigger

Charles Parnell

A gallerist
8 Which historical person does the Shade represent?

James Joyce

Maud Gonne

William Gladstone

Charles Parnell
9 Which of the following lines breaks the poem's typical meter?

And gather the Glasnevin coverlet

The pack upon him.

Whether to look upon your monument

And the gaunt houses put on majesty:
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?

Anaphora

Apostrophe

Zeugma

End rhyme
12 In which city is the poem set?

Belfast

Manchester

London

Dublin
13 What does the word "gaunt" mean?

Angry

Luxurious

Ghostly

Skinny
14 What does the word "flit" mean?

Move quickly

Wonder

Lie

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

T

G

L

N
16 What does the word "lofty" mean?

Wealthy

Tall

High-minded

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

Pitying

Patient

Wondering

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Amount

Helpful

Selfish

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

A political party

A mythological character

A holiday

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

Parnell and Lane

Dublin's middle class

Yeats

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

AABBCC

ABACDC

ABBCDD

ABBACDDC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?

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

"For they are at their old tricks yet."

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"
24 The poem's final line, in which death is described as safer than life, features which of the following?

Verbal irony

The line is not ironic

Situational irony

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

Crown

Castle

Public Sculpture

Autobiography

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