William Wordsworth Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. What does the poet compare himself to?
2. What does the poem "The World is Too Much With Us"compare the wind to?
3. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain?
4. Wordsworth died in which year?
5. "O blithe newcomer! "What is the meaning of blithe?
6. The failed friendship in the poem is based on Wordsworth's friendship with who?
7. What was the name of Wordsworth's collaboration with Coleridge?
8. The The critics and theorists from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir JoshuaReynolds broadly represent the thinking of the .....
9. Wordsworth can be called the poet of .....
10. When was Wordsworth born?
11. Identify the figure of speech in the expression 'The waves beside them danced'
12. Wordsworth called you "friend" so you are?
13. In this poem, the loneliness of the poet is contrasted with
14. Poetry embodies the "breath and finer spirit of all knowledge" and is emblematic of a deep sympathy between ..... and .....
15. In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published?
16. In "I wandered lonely as a cloud" who does "I" refer to?
17. Who is the poet?
18. Which among the following is an example of personification
19. For Wordsworth, imagination is .....
20. The poem was inspired by what?
21. About what was Wordsworth tormented when war in France broke out?
22. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.What is the figure of speech mentioned here?
23. How was the speaker wandering like
24. Give a synonym for the word solitude.
25. What is the definition of 'ridge'?
26. What does the word 'peak' mean?
27. What is the meaning of "pensive"
28. When did William Wordsworth die?
29. What according to Wordsworth is a suitable language for poetry?
30. Who is William Wordsworth?
31. ..... and ..... become the hallmarks of poetic creation.
32. The poem Daffodils often entitled as .....
33. "I gazed and gazed" is a good example of what literary device?
34. What town was Wordsworth born in?
35. Continuous as the stars that shine ..... Which figure of speech is the above line?
36. What rhyme scheme does the poem follow?
37. What term/word is used in the poem that is defined as "a valley" ?
38. "O blithe newcomer! "Who is the blithe newcomer?
39. How many daffodils were there?
40. Did William Wordsworth like writing about nature
41. 'The flash upon the inward eye'
42. How many stanza's does the poem consist of?
43. What kind of sonnet is "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" ?
44. Wordsworth is more concerned with the relation between the ..... and the .....
45. Which idiom best relates to "My Heart Leaps Up" ?
46. Which of the following is not a theme or motif in Wordsworth's work?
47. Who wrote poem 'World is Too Much With Us'?
48. What two words are rhymed in the final two lines of the poem?
49. Which of the choices below is the best summary of the theme or central idea of the poem?
50. Does the poet admire the cuckoo
51. This poem "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" is an example of what poetry theme?
52. At what age was Wordsworth orphaned?
53. They stretched in the never ending line ..Name the figure of speech.
54. Wordsworth's preface to lyrical ballads articulated ..... worldview
55. Where did Wordsworth attend college?
56. In "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" , what does Wordsworth do to capture the reader to show how the city moved him?
57. "The waves beside them danced." -What figure of speech is this?
58. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
59. The inward eye of the poet is the poet's
60. What does the line "For this, for everything, we are out of tune" mean?