1 How many lines are in this poem? 10 8 12 14 2 What is the poem's form? Villanelle Sestina Italian sonnet English sonnet 3 Who is this poem's speaker? An old woman A schoolboy A sailor on the night shift The speaker is not identified 4 How many stanzas are in the poem? 7 1 3 4 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? Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter Trochaic trimeter Spondaic monometer 7 In which way does the poem's final line differ from the previous ones? It does not rhyme with any other lines It is written in anapests It is longer It does not differ in a significant way 8 Where is the poem's volta? After line 12 At the beginning of the poem After line 2 After line 10 9 Where is the poem set? On a boat as sailors change shifts In a dreamlike fantasy world In the speaker's bedroom By the ocean at nightfall 10 What best describes the poem's mood? Disgusted Pleading Ominous Teasing 11 What movement can this poem best be considered part of? The Renaissance The Englightenment Modernism Romanticism 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? Fairy fires Witch's hearths Goblin's eyes Dragon's breath 14 Which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree with? It's essential to be logical and objective Your friends are your most important possession Life is always going to be uncertain and unpredictable 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 Dramatic irony Apostrophe Caesura 17 Which of the following appears in the line “Save where is heard the repercussive roar”? Sarcasm Alliteration Oxymoron Assonance 18 Which sound contributes to alliteration in the line “Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone”? R M S T 19 Which phrase contains assonance? "bidding 'Strike the bell!'" "Huge vapours brood" "All is black shadow" "such the dubious ray" 20 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB CDCD ABAB CD ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABA CDC EFE GHG ABBA ABBA CDDC CDDC EFFE 21 Which is an example of irony in the poem? 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 The fact that the speaker is dying, but doesn't know it yet 22 Which of the following lines contains personification? "Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore" "Misled the pilgrim – such the dubious ray" "seamen in the anchored bark that tell" "Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine" 23 Which two end words create slant rhyme? sand/land mute/foot tone/alone shore/roar 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" "the lucid line / Marked by the light surf" "That wavering reason lends in life’s long darkling way." "Night on the ocean settles dark and mute,"