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?

8

10

12

14
2 What is the poem's form?

Sestina

English sonnet

Villanelle

Italian sonnet
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

The speaker is not identified

A sailor on the night shift

An old woman

A schoolboy
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?

4

1

7

3
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quintains and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet
6 What is this poem's primary meter?

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter
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 2

At the beginning of the poem

After line 10
9 Where is the poem set?

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom

In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall
10 What best describes the poem's mood?

Teasing

Ominous

Disgusted

Pleading
11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of?

The Englightenment

Modernism

Romanticism

The Renaissance
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?

Reason

Domesticity

Transcendence

Innocence
13 The speaker compares the light of ships to which of the following?

Goblin's eyes

Fairy fires

Dragon's breath

Witch's hearths
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?

Your friends are your most important possession

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

It's essential to be logical and objective
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?

The arts

Nature

Urban life

Domesticity
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?

Dramatic irony

Caesura

Apostrophe

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

Oxymoron

Sarcasm

Assonance

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

M

S

T

R
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood"

"All is black shadow"

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

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE

ABA CDC EFE GHG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?

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

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

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

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"
23 Which two end words create slant rhyme?

sand/land

mute/foot

shore/roar

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 1920

Around 1800

Around 2000
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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

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