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

12

8

10
2 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

Sestina

English sonnet

Italian sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?
An old woman

A schoolboy

A sailor on the night shift

The speaker is not identified
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
3

7

4

1
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?
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?
It does not differ in a significant way

It is longer

It is written in anapests

It does not rhyme with any other lines
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 2

After line 10

After line 12

At the beginning of the poem
9 Where is the poem set?
In the speaker's bedroom

On a boat as sailors change shifts

By the ocean at nightfall

In a dreamlike fantasy world
10 What best describes the poem's mood?
Pleading

Teasing

Disgusted

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

Modernism

The Renaissance

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

Reason

Domesticity

Transcendence
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?
Witch's hearths

Dragon's breath

Fairy fires

Goblin's eyes
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?
Domesticity

Urban life

The arts

Nature
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?
Dramatic irony

Apostrophe

Personification

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

Sarcasm

Alliteration

Assonance
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?
"All is black shadow"

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"
20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?
tone/alone

shore/roar

sand/land

mute/foot
24 When was this poem written?
Around 1920

Around 1800

Around 2000

Around 1750
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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

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