1 What is the main subject of the poem A rowboat A blade of grass A bird A worm 2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain? Sextets Monostiches Octaves Quatrains 3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem? Slant rhyme Unusual text alignment Unconventional capitalization Dashes 4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem? Plucky and determined Depressed and somber Whimsical and bright Cautious and curious 5 How many stanzas does the poem have Two Seven Ten Five 6 When was the poem published? 1891 1898 1861 1918 7 What is the setting of the poem? Cape Cod The countryside, likely a grassy field A frozen lake The Maine woods 8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza? A worm Seeds A beetle A butterfly 9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird? Clearing out of the path of a beetle Drinking dew from a blade of grass Staring at her Flying home 10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from? Capentry Tailoring Seafaring Gardening 11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration? "And ate the fellow, raw," "He glanced with rapid eyes," "I offered him a Crumb," "Than Oars divide the Ocean," 12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry? To indicate repetition and interjection To replace semicolons To substitute for periods To indicate enjambment 13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble? The rewriting of a family narrative The recreation of a crime scene The retelling of a ghost story The reminiscence of a summer afternoon 14 What meter does the poem make use of? Lines of iambic pentameter Lines of dactylic hexameter Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter Lines of trochaic octameter 15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird? Dull Too complex to categorize Murderous Noble 16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza? A snake A rowboat and butterflies The sun and a swarm of bees The ocean 17 When does the climax of the poem occur? When the bird drinks dew When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight When the bird consumes the worm 18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to? A ruler A worm found only on sandy beaches A protractor A worm used for bait fishing 19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem? The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb The bird's rapidly moving eyes The bird's graceful flight home The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm 20 What is a major theme in the poem? The unknowability of nature The pain of unrequited love The curiosity of children The dangers of the ocean 21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem? Butterflies A whale The worm A rowboat 22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem? "Walk" and "halves" "Saw" and "raw" "Grass" and "pass" "Seam" and "swim" 23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work? Segment individual images Shift the meaning of individual words Reference other poets Alter the rhyme scheme 24 What does the bird's final flight represent? The dangers of the natural world The speaker's desire to be free Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding The difficulty of returning home 25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work? Walt Whitman Elizabeth Bishop Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne