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?

12

14

10

8
2 What is the poem's form?

Italian sonnet

Sestina

English sonnet

Villanelle
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

A sailor on the night shift

The speaker is not identified

A schoolboy

An old woman
4 How many stanzas are in the poem?

4

3

7

1
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Sestets and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

Quatrains and a couplet

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

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones?

It is longer

It is written in anapests

It does not rhyme with any other lines

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

After line 10

After line 2

At the beginning of the poem

After line 12
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?

Modernism

Romanticism

The Englightenment

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

Reason

Domesticity

Innocence

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

Dragon's breath

Fairy fires

Witch's hearths

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

Your friends are your most important possession

It's essential to be logical and objective

Parenthood is about preparing your children, not sheltering them
15 Which of the following motifs appear most prominently in the poem?

The arts

Nature

Domesticity

Urban life
16 Which device appears most frequently in this poem?

Personification

Caesura

Apostrophe

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

Alliteration

Sarcasm

Assonance

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

R

S

M

T
19 Which phrase contains assonance?

"Huge vapours brood"

"bidding 'Strike the bell!'"

"such the dubious ray"

"All is black shadow"
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 speaker's argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

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

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?

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

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

mute/foot

shore/roar

sand/land

tone/alone
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 2000

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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