This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Romantic Poetry – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Poetry Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the technique called when there is a deliberate break in a line of poetry? Often a full stop. A) Enjambment. B) Cesura. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cesura. 2. The line 'A little black thing among the snow' contains ..... A) A metaphor. B) Internal rhyme. C) Superlative. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 3. Everything Midas touched, turned to ..... A) Gold. B) Stone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold. 4. Which of the following would NOT be important to a Romantic Artist A) Intuition. B) Individualism. C) Idealism. D) Industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industry. 5. Which poet came from the Lake District? A) Blake. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 6. The poets talked about a social, historical and a very real idea of a prophet who is working for a social change. A) The first generation of romantic poets. B) The second generation of romantic poets. C) None of them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The second generation of romantic poets. 7. The man believes that they have infinite time. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. What is rhetoric? A) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. B) An argument that appeals to an audience's sense of logic or reason. C) A piece of writing (usually around 800-2000 words) about a particular topic. D) A short story that relates to the topic you are talking about. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. 9. Most writers during the Romantic time period A) Abandoned wit and satire and focused on emotions and nature. B) Abandoned nature and emotions and focused on wit and satire. C) Died of starvation. D) Didn't write about nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abandoned wit and satire and focused on emotions and nature. 10. What is writing to argue? A) Texts that are based on facts. B) Communicating information to your audience. C) Try to convince the reader to agree with your viewpoint. D) A written argument is often presented as a debate between opposing views-you acknowledge both sides of the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A written argument is often presented as a debate between opposing views-you acknowledge both sides of the argument. 11. ..... is the full name of Coleridge. A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Samuel Titus Coleridge. C) Samson Thomas Coleridge. D) Sanju Tennyson Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 12. Wordsworth's ..... is famous collection of poems. A) Tintern Abbey. B) Lyrical Ballad. C) Kubla Khan. D) On HIs Blindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical Ballad. 13. What is the technique which includes two lines together which rhyme? A) Rhyming couplet. B) Father. C) Irregular rhyme. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming couplet. 14. Why is the man speaking to his mistress in "To HIs Coy Mistress" ? A) He doesn't like that their relationship is moving slowly. B) He wants to end their relationship. C) He is going to die soon. D) He thinks she is too shy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He doesn't like that their relationship is moving slowly. 15. What is Wordsworth's poem about? A) A walk he went on by a lake surrounded by lilies. B) A walk he went on by a lake surrounded by beautiful red poppies. C) A walk he went on by a lake surrounded by beautiful yellow daffodils. D) A walk he went on by a lake on a very cloudy day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A walk he went on by a lake surrounded by beautiful yellow daffodils. 16. Wilfred Owen fought in the ..... A) Second World War. B) First World War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First World War. 17. In 'Ode on Melancholy, ' why does the narration speak directly to the reader? A) Keats wanted to heighten the emotional intensity of the poem. B) Keats wanted to make readers reflect on his melancholy. C) Keats wanted to distract the reader from the poem's stylistic artifice. D) Keats wanted to make the poem seem more conversational. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats wanted to make the poem seem more conversational. 18. This line "In vacant or in pensive mood" expresses A) The poet is looking at the flowers. B) The poet is walking around. C) The poet is enjoying a moment of tranquillity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet is enjoying a moment of tranquillity. 19. Romanticism is a strong, pervasive reaction against which previous literary movement in Britain? A) Victorian. B) The Divine Right. C) Restoration. D) Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment (or, the rationalism of it). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment (or, the rationalism of it). 20. Which poetry collection is 'The Chimney Sweeper:A Little Black Thing Among the Snow' in? A) Songs of Experience. B) Songs of Innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Songs of Experience. 21. What is the technique which describes a significant change of tone or mood in a poem? A) Stanza. B) Cesura. C) Time. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. 22. What inspired Wordsworth to write his poem? A) A childhood memory. B) A poem he read. C) A picture he saw. D) A walk with his sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A walk with his sister. 23. John Donne wrote "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning" upon A) Parting from his family. B) Dying. C) Parting from his wife. D) Parting from his children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parting from his wife. 24. Which poem describes a 'craggy ridge'? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'The Prelude'. 25. What does the lamb symbolize in the poem The Chimney Sweeper while referring to Tom Dacre's hair which has been shaved? A) Hope. B) Death. C) Misery. D) Innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Innocence. 26. Where is the ruler Ozymandias from? A) Ancient Spain. B) A made up place. C) Ancient Greece. D) Ancient Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ancient Egypt. 27. What is this an example of, 'Over 90 per cent of people voted in favour of the proposal'. A) Statistic. B) Anecdote. C) Opinion. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistic. 28. Which poem describes a walk around a city? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'London'. 29. Why was the figure of the child very important to Romantic poets? A) Children could read faster than adults. B) Children are unspoilt by civilisation. C) Children were often used as horror figures. D) Children could work for free. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children could work for free. 30. In 'The Echhoing Green' we see the lines 'our sports' and 'our play'. What voice is this written in? A) Third person omniscient. B) Third person limited. C) Second person. D) Collective first person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collective first person. 31. What tip of 'lip' is Ozymandias described as having? A) Unhappy. B) Vast. C) Wrinkled. D) Huge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wrinkled. 32. How does Nature describe the girl's connection with the natural world? A) She will dominate and control nature. B) She will have a deep understanding and bonding with nature. C) She will be passive and unresponsive to nature's beauty. D) She will be frightened and overwhelmed by the nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She will have a deep understanding and bonding with nature. 33. What did Romantic poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries ALSO write about? A) How much they loved inequality. B) Love and romance. C) That inequality in society was wrong. D) Death and the afterlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That inequality in society was wrong. 34. What is the theme of "She Walks in Beauty" ? A) Don't forget to smell the roses. B) Do not put importance on materialistic things. C) Time overcomes power. D) Outer beauty should reflect inner beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer beauty should reflect inner beauty. 35. The poem "A slumber did my spirit seal", is dedicated to A) Lucy. B) His sister. C) His wife. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucy. 36. Which of the following is an example of a personification of nature in 'Ode on Melancholy'? A) Weeping cloud. B) Morning rose. C) Salt-sand waves. D) Globed peonies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weeping cloud. 37. Who wrote 'To Autumn'? A) Keats. B) Smith. C) Wordsworth. D) Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 38. In an English essay the section for language analysis is the ..... A) 'How' section. B) 'What' section. C) 'Why' section. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'How' section. 39. Who wrote popular nursery tale three bears? A) Scott. B) Lamb. C) Byron. D) Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Southey. 40. Of the options listed, which do you think was MOST emphasized during the Romantic Period? A) Love. B) Math. C) Logic. D) Art and Beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Art and Beauty. 41. Would a Transcendentalist go to a church? A) Yes, because church helps to heighten the religious experience. B) No, because he/she will be closer to God by being in Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No, because he/she will be closer to God by being in Nature. 42. Which Greek god is mentioned at the end of 'My Last Duchess'? A) Neptune. B) Cronus. C) Hades. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neptune. 43. In "Kubla Khan, " the lines "And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;" are examples of imagery because A) They appeal to the senses. B) The emphasize the power of nature. C) They refer to characters from history. D) They use the trees to represent an abstract concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They appeal to the senses. 44. What is the basic structure of an article? A) Opening, middle, end, title. B) Title, opening, middle, end. C) Title, end, opening, middle. D) Middle, end, opening, title. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Title, opening, middle, end. 45. In 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', the air of London in the early morning is described as ..... A) Smokeless. B) Full of smoke. C) Polluted. D) Foggy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smokeless. 46. What type of poet is William Wordsworth? A) An Elizabethan poet. B) A Romantic poet. C) An Edwardian poet. D) A modern poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Romantic poet. 47. When were Romantic poets writing? A) The late 18th and early 17th centuries. B) The late 17th and early 18th centuries. C) The late 19th and early 20th centuries. D) The late 18th and early 19th centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The late 18th and early 19th centuries. 48. What seems to be dancing with the daffodils? A) The water on the lake. B) The trees by the lake. C) The birds in the trees. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The water on the lake. 49. Wordsworth makes allusions to Proteus and Triton in his poem-these are ..... A) Disney princesses. B) Norse sea gods. C) Greek sea gods. D) Mythological beasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greek sea gods. 50. But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Similarly. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 51. Poets thought that society could be considered as an evil force. They sympathize with the ideals of equality of FrenchRevolution. A) The second generation. B) The first generation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The first generation. 52. Who met a 'traveller from an antique land' A) Shelley. B) The narrator of 'Ozymandias'. C) Blake. D) The narrator of 'London'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The narrator of 'Ozymandias'. 53. Why would you start a sentence with an adverb? A) You can say what the verb (action) was like. B) You can say what the preposition was like. C) You can say what the adjective was like. D) You can say what the noun (object) was like. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You can say what the verb (action) was like. 54. What is the meaning of a "coy" mistress as used in the title? A) A playfully shy woman. B) A woman who likes to talk. C) A woman who has slept with multiple men. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A playfully shy woman. 55. In 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', what sort of adjectives are 'more steep' and 'more beautifully'? A) Compound. B) Superlative. C) Comparative. D) Possessive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparative. 56. Romantic poets believed that the Industrial Revolution caused people to be less in touch with nature. The effect they thought this had was that ..... A) People ate less. B) People began to dislike animals. C) People wanted to move to the city. D) People became less creative and less spiritual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People became less creative and less spiritual. 57. Which word describes the pattern of stripes on the face and body of the tiger in Blake's poem "Tyger, Tyger" ? A) Dread hand and dread feet. B) Immortal hand and eye. C) The fire of thine eyes. D) Thy fearful symmetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thy fearful symmetry. 58. How does the speaker in 'My Last Duchess' control who can see the painting? A) He hides it under a blanket. B) He hides it in his bedroom. C) He hides it behind a screen. D) He hides it behind a curtain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He hides it behind a curtain. 59. What does Wordsworth think the daffodils look like they're doing in the wind? A) Swaying. B) Moving. C) Blowing. D) Dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dancing. 60. Who is Claus of Innsbruck? A) The sculptor of 'Ozymandias'. B) The painter from 'My Last Duchess'. C) The sculptor from 'My Last Duchess'. D) The name of the speaker in 'The Prelude'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sculptor from 'My Last Duchess'. Next →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomantic Poetry Quiz 2Romantic Poetry Quiz 3Romantic Poetry Quiz 4Romantic Poetry Quiz 5Romantic Poetry Quiz 6American Poetry QuizMetaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books