Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quizzes

Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quiz

1 How many lines are in this poem?
14

10

12

8
2 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

Italian sonnet

English sonnet

Sestina
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
1

4

7

3
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?
Tercets and a couplet

Quintains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet
6 What is this poem's primary meter?
Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?
It does not rhyme with any other lines

It is written in anapests

It is longer

It does not differ in a significant way
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 12

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2
9 Where is the poem set?
In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall

In the speaker's bedroom

On a boat as sailors change shifts
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Ominous

Pleading

Disgusted

Teasing
11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of?
The Englightenment

The Renaissance

Modernism

Romanticism
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?
Innocence

Domesticity

Transcendence

Reason
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Goblin's eyes

Dragon's breath

Witch's hearths

Fairy fires
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?
Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

It's essential to be logical and objective

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

Your friends are your most important possession
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?
The arts

Domesticity

Urban life

Nature
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?
Caesura

Personification

Dramatic irony

Apostrophe
17 Which of the following appears in the line “Save where is heard the repercussive roar”?
Assonance

Sarcasm

Alliteration

Oxymoron
18 Which sound contributes to alliteration in the line “Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone”?
M

T

R

S
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"Huge vapours brood"

"All is black shadow"

"such the dubious ray"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?
sand/land

shore/roar

tone/alone

mute/foot
24 When was this poem written?
Around 2000

Around 1750

Around 1920

Around 1800
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"That wavering reason lends in life’s long darkling way."

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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