Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

The Gateway in 1953

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

Woman to Man in 1949

The Moving Image in 1946
2 What gets personified in the poem?

The sky

The moon

The land and the trees

The train
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem is in free verse
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?

The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.
6 What is the land compared to?

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is the speaker's mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Dreamlike

Inviting

Relaxed

Logical
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"

from which I was born

from which I come from

that built my heart

that broke my heart
9 Define "glassed"

To be observing

Attacked

Altered

Enclosed
10 How is the train described?

confused hammering dark

as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

the barren height
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?

The train's lights

Moonlight

Starlight

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?

barren height

poetry moved

dry flight

box-tree
13 What is assonance?

The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object

A tool of figurative language where an image, idea, object or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.
14 Define "crosswise"

a Christian cross

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

First and second-person

First-person

Third-person

Omniscient third-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?

Bosses, Instructs

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

Crosswise currents

Cold sheets

The ability to dance

Breath of dew
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?

Unspecified

Asleep and dreaming.

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.

Awake but in an altered state.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

The trees will die.

Nothing will happen.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

divinely, serenely

mysteriously, purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

articulate, sharp, and purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?

a slender dance

crosswise currents

barren height

dry flight
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker drives the train.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Ellipses

Exclamation

Parenthesis

Semi colon

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by Judith Wright

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