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?
Anapestic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

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

Generous

Transparent

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

Defamation

Abuse

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

"foul mouth"

"given their children's children"

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

Personification

Apostrophe

Understatement
7 Who is the speaker?
A gallerist

A gravedigger

An unidentified Dubliner

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

William Gladstone

Charles Parnell

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

The pack upon him.

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

Awning

Curtain

Sunglasses
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

London

Manchester

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

Angry

Luxurious

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

Lie

Gossip

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

L

T

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

Wealthy

Snobbish

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

Wondering

Exhilarated

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

Onomatopoeia
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 holiday

A political party

A mythological character

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

The speaker

Parnell and Lane

Yeats
22 Which of the following rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABBACDDC

ABBCDD

ABACDC

AABBCC
23 Which of the following lines is an instance of understatement?
"For they are at their old tricks yet."

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

"And the gaunt houses put on majesty:"

"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

Situational irony

The line is not ironic

Verbal irony
25 What does the word "monument" mean?
Autobiography

Castle

Public Sculpture

Crown

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