Romantic Poetry Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. "They flash upon that inward eye" it is
2. What is 'Their bare boughs weighed with snow.' An example of?
3. Complete the quotation:'getting and spending we lay waste our ..... '
4. What is the tone of the poem? "How does the author feel about the topic of using children as chimney sweeps?
5. How can we define Wordsworth's view of nature?
6. What is a rhetorical question?
7. Shakespeare's theatre was called .....
8. What does Keats help us to imagine in his poem?
9. Why would you use an expert quote in a piece of logos writing?
10. Why would you use an anecdote in a piece of logos writing?
11. Themes the Romantics liked to explore include .....
12. How many generations of Romantic poets were there?
13. Who was William Wordsworth very close with?
14. Who wrote the poem, "Darkness?"
15. Complete the quotation:'Old John with white hair, does laugh away ..... '
16. What is the oak tree, which the old people sit under in 'The Echhoing Green', a symbol of?
17. Who is the West Wind's "azure sister" ?
18. The Enlightenment meant people moved away from traditional religious beliefs and towards .....
19. At the beginning of the poem, how does the poet feel?
20. The title of the poem explicitly prohibits
21. "Continuous as the stars that shine" it is a
22. What 'blasts the new-born infant's tear' in 'London'?
23. How would you describe the rhyming pattern in the poem 'My Last Duchess'?
24. Complete the quotation:'to this, to everything, we are out of ..... '
25. True or False:Romanticism has virtually everything to do with romantic love.
26. 'The Echhoing Green' ends, 'The sun does descend, / And our sports have an end.' On first reading, this suggests simply that night has fallen. However, an alternative reading might suggest that this is a metaphor for .....
27. What element in nature best thrills the speaker in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" ?
28. According to the Bible, what creature told Eve to take the apple?
29. What time period was Romanticism?
30. In this poem Wiordsworth describes again
31. In "The Chimney Sweeper, " when does Tom Dacre start crying?
32. 'Divergence' is .....
33. What happened after the Duke 'gave commands'?
34. Identify the poetic devices Dickinson uses in the passages below. They shut me up in Prose-As when a little GirlThey put me in the Closet-Because they liked me "still" -
35. What kind of 'line' is described in 'The Prelude'?
36. So would a transcendentalist want to go to school to learn?
37. In "The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd, " what best describes the poem's central idea? (a)
38. Which Greek gods does Wordsworth allude to at the end of 'The World is too much with us'?
39. What do the reactions of the parents and the child indicate about the moment?
40. In "The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd, " why does the Nymph reject the Shepherd? (a)
41. Why would the speaker in "The World is too Much with Us" prefer to be a "pagan" ?
42. What tone best describes the direct speech in the final stanza of 'The Echhoing Green':'Such, such were the joys. / When we all girls & boys, / In our youth-time were seen, / On the Ecchoing Green.'
43. The phrase 'Band of brothers' comes from which Shakespeare play?
44. What are the two things that the shepherd says he will do for his beloved? (a)
45. What caused a rise in factories and machines?
46. What inspired Keats to write 'To Autumn'?
47. "The perwinkle trail'd its wreathes ..... "it is
48. The Age of Enlightenment focused on the imagination
49. What is an article?
50. When were the Romantic poets active?
51. Why was Rousseau an important figure for Romanticism?
52. Coleridge mentions "Alph, the sacred river" . This name is either made up or refers to the River Alpheus in Greece. What does this indicate about the poem?
53. What is the purpose of a blog?
54. In the last stanza of I wandered lonely as a cloud solitude is seen as
55. Who wrote this "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ?
56. Romanticism is what type of movement?
57. Romantic Poetry usually is in awe, or holds in high regard, what?
58. Which poet did we NOT read in class for the Romantic unit?
59. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls1; Along the sea-sands damp and brownThe traveler hastens2 toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
60. What did Wordsworth believe about nature?