Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quizzes

Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening Quiz

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1 How many lines are in this poem?

8

14

10

12
2 What is the poem's form?

Italian sonnet

Sestina

English sonnet

Villanelle
3 Who is this poem's speaker?

The speaker is not identified

A sailor on the night shift

A schoolboy

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

3

4

1

7
5 What types of stanzas are in this poem?

Quintains and a couplet

Sestets and a couplet

Tercets and a couplet

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

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic hexameter

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

It is longer

It does not differ in a significant way

It does not rhyme with any other lines

It is written in anapests
8 Where is the poem's volta?

After line 2

After line 10

At the beginning of the poem

After line 12
9 Where is the poem set?

In a dreamlike fantasy world

By the ocean at nightfall

On a boat as sailors change shifts

In the speaker's bedroom
10 What best describes the poem's mood?

Teasing

Ominous

Pleading

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

Modernism

The Englightenment

Romanticism

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

Transcendence

Innocence

Domesticity

Reason
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?

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?

Nature

Urban life

The arts

Domesticity
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”?

Sarcasm

Oxymoron

Alliteration

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

R

T

M

S
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?

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 argument that promises of certainty actually create confusion

The speaker's sarcastic suggestion that life is easy

The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet
22 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray"

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

"seamen in the anchored bark that tell"

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

mute/foot

tone/alone

shore/roar

sand/land
24 When was this poem written?

Around 1750

Around 2000

Around 1800

Around 1920
25 Which phrase is an example of synecdoche?

"one deep voice alone / Singing the hour"

"Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"

"the lucid line / Marked by the light surf"

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

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