William Wordsworth Quiz 4 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the line "For this, for everything, we are out of tune" mean?

Correct Answer: C) Not having humility and respect for Nature.

2. The flowers are "fluttering and dancing" and so are the waves. This is an example of what type of sensory language?

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

3. What was the name of Wordsworth's wife?

Correct Answer: D) Mary Hutchinson.

4. What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials?

Correct Answer: D) Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

5. When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate?

Correct Answer: D) 1843.

6. What does the quote "It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure" feature?

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

7. What does "Pagan" mean? Choose the best answer.

Correct Answer: C) Non-Christian.

8. In the poem, why might the word, 'solitude' be used? To mean .....

Correct Answer: B) Being alone, secluded, lonely.

9. What does the phrase "Sprightly dance" mean?

Correct Answer: B) Lively and full of energy.

10. "The World Is Too Much with Us" is a

Correct Answer: C) Sonnet.

11. What does the Sea give to the moon?

Correct Answer: C) Her bosom.

12. A sonnet has how many lines?

Correct Answer: D) 14.

13. After the drowning of his brother, which poem did he write?

Correct Answer: A) Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle.

14. What imagery is used to show how the speaker feels empty without the friendship?

Correct Answer: B) A hidden well.

15. Who did Wordsworth write "We Are Seven" with?

Correct Answer: D) Samuel Coleridge.

16. Where did the speaker see the daffodils

Correct Answer: C) Ore's the vales.

17. According to Wordsworth, ..... is not essential to poetry but it is only a source of pleasure

Correct Answer: C) Metre.

18. Name the figure of speech used in the first line of the poem?

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

19. (I wandered as lonely as a cloud)What language technique is used?

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

20. How many lines does the poem consist of?

Correct Answer: B) 9.