This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Romantic Poetry – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Poetry Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Wordsworth personify when he writes 'danced in the breeze'? A) Danced. B) Breeze. C) Daisies. D) Daffodils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daffodils. 2. Sonnets are usually associated with which theme? A) Drama. B) Anger. C) Love. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 3. What is the central device found in the poem Frost at Midnight, while the poem starts addressing his son who was fast asleep? A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Personification. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 4. According to Wordsworth, the poet is a man of A) Exceptional education. B) Rationality. C) Sensitivity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensitivity. 5. What message is the poet trying to convey about the church? A) The church is not doing enough to help the poor. B) Male priests and female priests need to be treated equally. C) The church should have moral standards. D) Children should be brought up to be religious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The church is not doing enough to help the poor. 6. 'Who's for the Game' was written by a female poet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What is this an example of, 'Bang, crash! The window smashed in to little pieces.'? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. In "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning, " to what does the speaker compare him and his lover when they must be apart? A) He compares them to two birds that mate for life. B) He compares them to sublunary lovers. C) He compares them to wheels on a cart. D) He compares them to the two legs of a compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He compares them to the two legs of a compass. 9. Which poem includes the inscription on a pedestal? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'Ozymandias'. 10. In stanza two, according to the speaker, what broke nature's social union? A) Fellow-mortal. B) Earth-born companion. C) Ill opinion. D) Man's Dominion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man's Dominion. 11. Lyric poems were NOT popular during the Romantic era. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. What is the main idea of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" ? A) Children had to work dirty jobs in the 1800s. B) This poem is a harsh and justifiable critique of child labor. C) William Blake did not like chimneys. D) Chimney sweeps were always children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This poem is a harsh and justifiable critique of child labor. 13. In Wordsworth's poem I wandered lonely as a cloud what immediate effect does the sight of the daffodils have on the poetic voice? A) A He feels curious about how they got there. B) He is inspired to write a poem about them. C) He suddenly feels very happy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He suddenly feels very happy. 14. Who wrote 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'? A) Wordsworth. B) Blake. C) Keats. D) Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 15. The usual connotation of the colour green is ..... A) Nature. B) Anger. C) Love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 16. Why was Smith put into prison? A) She owed money. B) She stole something. C) She killed someone. D) She lied. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She owed money. 17. 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. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface3 the footprints in the sands.And the tide rises, the tide falls The morning breaks; the steeds4 in their stallsStamp and neigh5, as the hostler6 calls;The day returns, but nevermoreReturns the traveler to the shore, The traveler appears to be journeying A) On horseback along the shore. B) From town to the shore. C) To town by boat. D) Along the shore toward town. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Along the shore toward town. 18. The usual connotation of white is ..... A) Innocence. B) Anger. C) Sadness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Innocence. 19. What was Wordsworth's source of inspiration? A) The countryside and its workers. B) Nature and humble people. C) Castels and aristocracy. D) Big cities and the working class. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature and humble people. 20. Who wrote Hymn to intellectual beauty? A) Shelley. B) Byron. C) Scott. D) Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 21. A Sonnet has ..... lines? A) 12. B) 10. C) 14. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 22. The Industrial Revolution was a time when ..... A) Developments in technology led to a rise in factories. B) People from the countryside moved to the cities for work. C) Children began to work in factories. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 23. "Death be not Proud" is an example of A) Simile. B) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 24. A Petrarchan sonnet contains two parts. What is the name of the part that involves the problem? A) Sestet. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. 25. Romantic Writers liked to focus on- A) The community. B) The powerful. C) The people in love. D) The individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The individual. 26. What is the impact of the short lines and rhyming couplets? A) It slows down the pace and makes the poem seem more sombre. B) It increases the pace and makes the tone more jolly. C) It has no effect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It increases the pace and makes the tone more jolly. 27. In "Darkness, " what is unique about the one specific dog mentioned? A) The dog starts the fire that causes everything to burn. B) The dog tries to protect, rather than eat, its master's corpse. C) The dog survives the end of the world and lives on in darkness. D) The dog is more cruel than any of the humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog tries to protect, rather than eat, its master's corpse. 28. Who rescues them? A) God. B) An angel. C) Ned. D) Jack. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An angel. 29. 'The pavement stared back at me blankly' uses ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) A simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 30. How did the speaker of "The Chimney Sweeper" get his job? A) He ran away from home to take it up. B) It is the family business. C) His father sold him into it. D) He was discovered by a talent scout. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His father sold him into it. 31. Romanticism can be broadly referred to a A) A movement in the scientific realm. B) A movement for singers. C) A movement across the wealthy. D) A movement across all the arts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A movement across all the arts. 32. Keats Hyperion shows the influence of ..... A) Chaucer. B) Shakespeare. C) Milton. D) Spencer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milton. 33. Which poets did used a very complex language? A) The first generation. B) The second generation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The second generation. 34. Which poem repeats the word 'hear'? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'London'. 35. 'O lift me like a leaf, i fall on the thorn of life, i bleed' is a line from ..... by P B Shelly. A) Ode to West Wind. B) Ode to Nightingale. C) Ode to Grecian Urn. D) Ode to Autum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode to West Wind. 36. Wordsworth thought the language of poetry should be A) Simple and emphatic. B) Restrained and elegant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple and emphatic. 37. "The world is too much with us ..... " what does the speaker mean by "the world" ? A) Friends and foes. B) The material world. C) Politics and religion. D) War and strife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The material world. 38. What did Romantic poets want to remind everyone of? A) How fantastic machines were. B) The power and usefulness of factories. C) That they needed to move back to the countryside. D) How powerful and beautiful nature was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How powerful and beautiful nature was. 39. What did Wordsworth spend lots of time doing? A) Walking through London. B) Working in factories. C) Walking through cities. D) Walking through the countryside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walking through the countryside. 40. In 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', the speaker describes how 'The river glideth at his own sweet will:'. What word is used to describe a 'wanderer', someone who the Romantic poets applauded for their free and wandering nature as they simply strolled and observed life? A) Flaneur. B) Flannel. C) Flu. D) Flan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flaneur. 41. Who did Romantic Poets have an interest, and even concern, in when they wrote their poems? A) The celebrities of society. B) The highborn (royals) of society. C) The criminals of society. D) The outcasts of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The outcasts of society. 42. What was the miracle of rare device? A) A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice. B) The stately pleasure dome of Kuala Khan. C) The Alph river that ran measureless to man and down to the sunless sea. D) The woman wailing for her demon lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice. 43. Who of the following has not been a poet laureate? A) John Masefield. B) Coleridge. C) Robert bridges. D) Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 44. What is emotive language? A) Words and phrases deliberately and intentionally used to make the audience feel certain emotions (e.g. sadness, worry, urgency etc). B) A short story that relates to the topic you are talking about. C) How a person feels about a topic or subject. D) A statement that is definitely true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words and phrases deliberately and intentionally used to make the audience feel certain emotions (e.g. sadness, worry, urgency etc). 45. In She Walks in Beauty, what does the narrator think of the woman's character? A) The narrator thinks she is beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside. B) The narrator sees an inner beauty in the woman's face. C) The narrator is only interested in looks. D) The narrator doesn't know what kind of a person she is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The narrator sees an inner beauty in the woman's face. 46. The poem "Darkness" is about the greek war of independece A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. What does Keats write about in his first stanza?'To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees' A) The daffodils dancing. B) The fruits on the trees. C) The smell of poppies. D) The sounds of autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fruits on the trees. 48. Define the tone of the poem A) Meditative. B) Happy. C) Very sad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meditative. 49. Being credible creates A) Imagery. B) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 50. How can we define the choice of words in Romantic poetry? A) Direct. B) Familiar. C) Simple. D) Artificial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Familiar. 51. How did the Industrial Revolution take people further away from nature? A) People did more things by hand. B) People did more things with machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People did more things with machines. 52. What happened to Lucy? A) She got married. B) She moved to another village. C) She died. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She died. 53. Which is NOT a value of Romanticism? A) Imagination. B) Nature. C) Reason. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason. 54. In which season was "Ode to the West Wind" written? A) Winter. B) Summer. C) Autumn. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autumn. 55. What idea was most emphasized during Romanticism? A) Imagination and emotion. B) Politics. C) Religion. D) Math. E) Soft colors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagination and emotion. 56. In "The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd, " what is the effect of the alliteration in the following lines of the second stanza? "When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold/ And Philomel becometh dumb/ The rest complains of cares to come." (a) A) A The harsh sounds parallel a harsh vision of time and nature. B) The harsh sounds create a positive tone. C) The harsh sounds don't effect the poem. D) The harsh sounds show that the speaker is rejecting the shepherd. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A The harsh sounds parallel a harsh vision of time and nature. 57. 'The Echhoing Green' presents a pure and idealised vision of childhood. What world best describes this? A) Dystopian. B) Utopian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Utopian. 58. How many stanzas are there in 'The World is too much with us'? A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 59. What is the technique called when a sentence or phrase runs over one line or stanza? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Juxtaposition. C) Cesura. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 60. Creating credibility in a speech is using ..... A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomantic Poetry Quiz 1Romantic Poetry Quiz 2Romantic Poetry Quiz 3Romantic Poetry Quiz 5Romantic Poetry Quiz 6American Poetry QuizMetaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books