This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Metaphysical Poetry – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 2 (59 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which poet and critic coined the term "metaphysical poet" ? A) Andrew Marvell. B) John Donne. C) Henry Vaughan. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Johnson. 2. Why these poets are called the metaphysical poets? A) They are highly philosophical. B) Their poetry contain display of learning and far-fetched similes and metaphors. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 3. Who wrote " The Collar" ? A) John Donne. B) Andrew Marvell. C) John Dryden. D) George Herbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Herbert. 4. Which line from "To His Coy Mistress" conveys personification? A) 5-6. B) 22. C) 31. D) 26-27. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 22. 5. Choose the word that means-Sin against; violate a limit. A) Transgress. B) Sacrilege. C) Infernal. D) Cloister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transgress. 6. An example of hyperbole is ..... A) She sang like an angel. B) The girl looked like a ghost. C) I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!. D) It's going to rain on Wednesday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!. 7. Choose the word that means-Dishonor; disgrace. A) Affliction. B) Guile. C) Ignominy. D) Contention. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ignominy. 8. Who is known as the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time? A) John Keats. B) John Donne. C) Oscar Wilde. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. 9. Who said about John Donne that 'he affects metaphysics'? A) Dr. Johnson. B) Dryden. C) Abraham Cowley. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dryden. 10. Which poet was thrown into prison due to political turmoil and wrote a poem from prison A) Marvel. B) Milton. C) Donne. D) Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Johnson. 11. What method of discipline does the author ask for in the poem "Discipline" ? A) A gentle discipline. B) An indifferent discipline. C) A weak discipline. D) A tough discipline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gentle discipline. 12. This poet had a secret marriage, wrote about secular and religious subjects, used surprising contrasts, and was obsessed with death to the point that s/he preached his/her own funeral sermon. A) Andrew Marvell. B) Robert Herrick. C) John Donne. D) Richard Lovelace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. 13. What is this an example of:So foul and fair a day I have not seen. A) Paradox. B) Conceit. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 14. Which poem talks about the urgency of salvation? A) "Now". B) "Peace". C) "Love". D) "Bitter-sweet". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Now". 15. What is the major metaphysical conceit present in "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning" ? A) The speaker compares himself and his love to a compass. B) The speaker compares their love to gold. C) The speaker compares their departure like a good man's death. D) The speaker compares earthquakes with the movement of planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The speaker compares himself and his love to a compass. 16. Choose the word that means-Hellish; fiendish. A) Cloister. B) Sacrilege. C) Transgress. D) Infernal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infernal. 17. A long, narrative poem. A) Diction. B) Style. C) Literary Epic. D) Syntax. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literary Epic. 18. This poet lived to be 83, worked for the church, never married and was rumored to have made up the women in his poems. A) Andrew Marvell. B) Robert Herrick. C) John Donne. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Herrick. 19. A common theme of Cavalier poetry is ..... A) Carpe spring. B) Carpe diem. C) Carpe autumn. D) Carpe nightem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carpe diem. 20. What is the meter of "How Soon Hath Time" ? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Iambic trimeter. C) Alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter. D) Iambic tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 21. What does sacrilege mean? A) Violating something that is sacred. B) Holding something in high regard. C) Being respectful. D) Being obedient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Violating something that is sacred. 22. Choose the word that means-At a slanting angle. A) Breach. B) Obliquely. C) Profanation. D) Laity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obliquely. 23. What is the purpose of metaphysical poems? A) Shock the reader and wake them up from their normal existence to question the unquestionable. B) Shock the reader to understand the complexity of revenge and change for the better. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shock the reader and wake them up from their normal existence to question the unquestionable. 24. Richard Lovelace served time in prison and wrote Lucasta. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Choose the word that means-Something that causes pain or suffering. A) Contention. B) Affliction. C) Guile. D) Ignominy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Affliction. 26. Another word for metaphysical conceit is ..... A) An extended metaphor. B) Personification. C) An exaggeration. D) A paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An extended metaphor. 27. Which of these is NOT a theme of Metaphysical Poetry? A) Devotional Themes. B) Complexities and Contradictions in life. C) War and loyalty to the King. D) Psychological and philosophical subjects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) War and loyalty to the King. 28. An example of desolation is ..... A) Going to a movie with friends. B) A birthday party. C) Sitting alone at lunch. D) Going bowling with your family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sitting alone at lunch. 29. Which one is not the poem by John Donne? A) Death Be not Proud. B) The Dream. C) The Sun Rising. D) Progress of Poesy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Progress of Poesy. 30. Choose the word that means-Cunning. A) Contention. B) Affliction. C) Guile. D) Ignominy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guile. 31. What is the rhyme scheme in "My First Son" ? A) Father. B) Rhyming couplets. C) ABBA. D) FATHER. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming couplets. 32. John Donne invented this to use in his poetry A) Satire. B) Irony. C) Naming. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 33. Which of the follow best describes the theme of "To His Coy Mistress" ? A) Carpe Diem (seize the day). B) Love is freedom. C) Love is eternal. D) Women are difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpe Diem (seize the day). 34. What century do is metaphysical poerty from? A) 15th century. B) 20th century. C) 16th century. D) 17 century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 17 century. 35. A metaphysical conceit is an unusual ..... A) Plot device. B) Poetic meter. C) Extended metaphor. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extended metaphor. 36. A complex literary device that makes a far-stretched comparison A) Poem. B) Conceit. C) Paradox. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conceit. 37. Love and ..... were common topics for Cavalier poets to write about. A) Duty. B) Loss. C) War. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) War. 38. An animal with guile is ..... A) A puppy. B) A bunny. C) A fox. D) A deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fox. 39. Which poem is about two souls loving each other even in eternity? A) "Bitter-sweet". B) "Love". C) "An epitaph". D) "Peace". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "An epitaph". 40. What is profanation? A) A false statement. B) Lack of reverence. C) Uneasiness. D) Kindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lack of reverence. 41. What metaphysical characteristic is shown in lines 9-13 of "How Soon Hath Time" ? A) Conceit comparing time to a thief. B) Argument convincing himself that it's God's will (part of His plan). C) Pun with the word "measure" in line 10. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Argument convincing himself that it's God's will (part of His plan). 42. An example of character with malice is ..... A) Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) King Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 43. Which poet escaped being executed by reading a passage from the Latin Bible, which allowed him to be tried by a church court? A) Ben Johnson. B) Richard Lovelace. C) John Milton. D) Andrew Marvel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ben Johnson. 44. Writing marked by bold conceits, imagery, complex thought, and use of paradox A) Metaphysical Poetry. B) Petrarchan Sonnet. C) Shakespearean Sonnet. D) Metaphysical Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphysical Poetry. 45. What is Metaphysical Conceit? A) A resource of irony. B) A comparison that uses the word "like". C) A repetition of a phrase for poetic impact. D) An unusual parallel between very different elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An unusual parallel between very different elements. 46. Choose the word that means-Lack of reverence. A) Obliquely. B) Laity. C) Profanation. D) Breach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profanation. 47. What literary device does Lovelace include in the first couple lines of "To Althea, from prison" ? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 48. What are some characteristics of metaphysical poetry? A) Similes, hyperbole, and ballad like verse. B) Strange imagery, frequent paradox, extremely complicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strange imagery, frequent paradox, extremely complicated. 49. Which poet never received a college degree because he was Roman Catholic and refused to the Protestant allegiance oath? A) John Milton. B) John Donne. C) Andrew Marvell. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. 50. Choose the word that means-Break; split. A) Laity. B) Obliquely. C) Profanation. D) Breach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Breach. 51. What is this an example of:The clouds cried tears of rain. A) Conceit. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 52. What is an example of metaphysical conceit used in the poem "A valediction:Forbidden Mourning?" A) The author and his wife's souls compared to the two points of a compass that though they part, are always joined. B) The speaker lying in bed sick and being compared to a map being studied by doctors. C) The sun being called a bright morning star and the day's harbinger. D) The stars being called luminaries in the sky to light up the night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author and his wife's souls compared to the two points of a compass that though they part, are always joined. 53. Manner of expression; how a speaker or writer says what he says. A) Style. B) Literary Epic. C) Diction. D) Syntax. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Style. 54. Giving attributes of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 55. Define contention. A) An agreement. B) A struggle. C) Friendship. D) A compliment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A struggle. 56. Who said this "'A thought to Donne was an experience It modified his sensibility" about John Donne? A) W. B. Yeats. B) T. S. Eliot. C) Abraham Cowley. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot. 57. He is the founder and a pioneer of Metaphysical Poetry A) William Shakespeare. B) Charles I. C) John Donne. D) Terry Bradshaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. 58. Choose the word that means-an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted; state of seclusion. A) Profanation. B) Cloister. C) Breach. D) Obliquely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cloister. 59. Which author is considered a metaphysical poet? A) Robert Herrick. B) John Donne. C) Andrew Marvell. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMetaphysical Poetry Quiz 1American Poetry QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizProsody QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books