William Wordsworth Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. The flowers are "fluttering and dancing" and so are the waves. This is an example of what type of sensory language?
2. What was the name of Wordsworth's wife?
3. What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials?
4. When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate?
5. What does the quote "It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure" feature?
6. What does "Pagan" mean? Choose the best answer.
7. In the poem, why might the word, 'solitude' be used? To mean .....
8. What does the phrase "Sprightly dance" mean?
9. "The World Is Too Much with Us" is a
10. What does the Sea give to the moon?
11. A sonnet has how many lines?
12. After the drowning of his brother, which poem did he write?
13. What imagery is used to show how the speaker feels empty without the friendship?
14. Who did Wordsworth write "We Are Seven" with?
15. Where did the speaker see the daffodils
16. According to Wordsworth, ..... is not essential to poetry but it is only a source of pleasure
17. Name the figure of speech used in the first line of the poem?
18. (I wandered as lonely as a cloud)What language technique is used?
19. How many lines does the poem consist of?
20. We 'll give to idleness-This line means that .....
21. What does the writer mean by "Little we see in Nature that is ours;" ?
22. In romantic view, feeling, sensibility and emotions are more important capacities than .....
23. Which two words rhyme in the last two of the lines of the first stanza?
24. What is meant by daffodils
25. Who wrote ' The Solitary Reaper'?
26. What does the poem compare the wind to?
27. With whom did Wordsworth form a powerful friendship while studying at Cambridge?
28. For the literary device, Personification, what object in the poem was "sprightly dancing" ?
29. The title, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is an example of what literary device?
30. When the speaker uses the word "crowd" to refer to the daffodils, what literary term is applied?
31. What is the main theme of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" ?
32. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" what figure of speech in this line is .....
33. Which writing piece started Wordsworth's literary career?
34. They ..... in never ending lines
35. Name of the park discussed in the poem is?
36. With whom did William Wordsworth launch his first book
37. Meaning of 'Bliss of solitude'
38. Where was he walking?
39. In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet?
40. William Wordsworth wrote 'Lyrical Ballads' together with .....
41. According to Wordsworth, poetry is dependent on the ..... and ..... is vital to the development of the poet's mind.
42. Which of the following quotes portrays the narrator as a confident person?
43. According to the speaker in "The World is Too Much With Us" , we "are out of ..... "
44. Who wrote "The World is Too Much with Us? "
45. According to Wordsworth and other romantics, what is the purpose of a poem
46. What is the inspiration And source of all poetry according to the romantic view?
47. An important work in the English Romantic Movement.
48. Who was William Wordsworth
49. What happens to his heart whenever he sees a rainbow?
50. Which of these words describe the mood of the poem
51. The poet is very ..... while writing the poem
52. A host, of golden daffodils.
53. What does this line mean? "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;"
54. The first stanza of the poem tells us that the poet
55. Which one of this is a alliteration from the poem CUCKOO
56. Daffodils is a .....
57. Continue: "And then my heart with pleasure fills, ..... "
58. The unofficial manifesto of romantic movement was published in the year?
59. "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is an example of
60. Who was the speaker comparing the daffodils from