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

12

14

10
2 What is the poem's form?
Sestina

Italian sonnet

English sonnet

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

An old woman

A sailor on the night shift

A schoolboy
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?
4

1

3

7
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

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer
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 written in anapests

It is longer

It does not rhyme with any other lines
8 Where is the poem's volta?
After line 10

At the beginning of the poem

After line 2

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?
In the speaker's bedroom

In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall

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

Teasing

Disgusted

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

Modernism

The Renaissance

The Englightenment
12 Which idea does the speaker express skepticism about?
Domesticity

Transcendence

Reason

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

Dragon's breath

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths
14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with?
It's essential to be logical and objective

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them

Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable

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

The arts

Domesticity

Urban life
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”?
R

T

S

M
19 Which phrase contains assonance?
"such the dubious ray"

"All is black shadow"

"Huge vapours brood"

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

ABAB CDCD ABAB CD

ABA CDC EFE GHG

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
21 Which is an example of irony in the poem?
The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet

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

The personification of objects that are actually lifeless

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

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

sand/land

mute/foot

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?
Around 2000

Around 1750

Around 1800

Around 1920
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?
"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

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

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

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