1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's artworks The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts The daughter's anxieties 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Age and wisdom Sublime beauty Physical strength and size Rootedness in place 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Assonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia Metonymy 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Sestets Octets Quatrains Quintains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Eyelid Jar lid Blanket Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Brook Monument Prayer 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Artistry Sublimity Memorability 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "the storm is howling" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABABCDCD ABACDCAB ABBACDDC AABBCDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Observing Stopping Burdening Frightening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Synecdoche Understatement Simile Hyperbole 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is not yet born She is very young and asleep She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? Nature's wrath Agricultural abundance The changing seasons Danger and extremes 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Queen Victoria Aphrodite Helen of Troy Cleopatra 18 Where is the poem set? A battlefield during World War I An Irish woodland The Tower of London Dublin in 1916 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Disorganized Mistrustful Upset Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Tradition Politeness Bluntness Nobility 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A version of W.B. Yeats himself A mother with a sick child 23 What is a linnet? A baby A bird A candle A nightgown 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Generosity Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl"