Adam's Curse Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Adam's Curse? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The speaker uses the moon as a metaphor for what?


The heart
The mind
Cheese
Time
Q. He compares the moon's surface to a ______.


Seashell
Skull
Beach ball
Love affair
Q. What does Yeats use as a metaphor for time?


A clock
The waters
A rose
A volcano
Q. "And yet we'd grown / as _____-hearted as that hollow moon."


Silly
Sad
Weary
Smelly
Q. When Yeats says the sky is "trembling," he's using….


Personification
Literal language
Figurative Language
A simile