Romantic Poetry Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. What does Wordsworth personify when he writes 'danced in the breeze'?
2. Sonnets are usually associated with which theme?
3. What is the central device found in the poem Frost at Midnight, while the poem starts addressing his son who was fast asleep?
4. According to Wordsworth, the poet is a man of
5. What message is the poet trying to convey about the church?
6. 'Who's for the Game' was written by a female poet.
7. What is this an example of, 'Bang, crash! The window smashed in to little pieces.'?
8. In "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning, " to what does the speaker compare him and his lover when they must be apart?
9. Which poem includes the inscription on a pedestal?
10. In stanza two, according to the speaker, what broke nature's social union?
11. Lyric poems were NOT popular during the Romantic era.
12. What is the main idea of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" ?
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?
14. Who wrote 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?
15. The usual connotation of the colour green is .....
16. Why was Smith put into prison?
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
18. The usual connotation of white is .....
19. What was Wordsworth's source of inspiration?
20. Who wrote Hymn to intellectual beauty?
21. A Sonnet has ..... lines?
22. The Industrial Revolution was a time when .....
23. "Death be not Proud" is an example of
24. A Petrarchan sonnet contains two parts. What is the name of the part that involves the problem?
25. Romantic Writers liked to focus on-
26. What is the impact of the short lines and rhyming couplets?
27. In "Darkness, " what is unique about the one specific dog mentioned?
28. Who rescues them?
29. 'The pavement stared back at me blankly' uses .....
30. How did the speaker of "The Chimney Sweeper" get his job?
31. Romanticism can be broadly referred to a
32. Keats Hyperion shows the influence of .....
33. Which poets did used a very complex language?
34. Which poem repeats the word 'hear'?
35. 'O lift me like a leaf, i fall on the thorn of life, i bleed' is a line from ..... by P B Shelly.
36. Wordsworth thought the language of poetry should be
37. "The world is too much with us ..... " what does the speaker mean by "the world" ?
38. What did Romantic poets want to remind everyone of?
39. What did Wordsworth spend lots of time doing?
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?
41. Who did Romantic Poets have an interest, and even concern, in when they wrote their poems?
42. What was the miracle of rare device?
43. Who of the following has not been a poet laureate?
44. What is emotive language?
45. In She Walks in Beauty, what does the narrator think of the woman's character?
46. The poem "Darkness" is about the greek war of independece
47. What does Keats write about in his first stanza?'To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees'
48. Define the tone of the poem
49. Being credible creates
50. How can we define the choice of words in Romantic poetry?
51. How did the Industrial Revolution take people further away from nature?
52. What happened to Lucy?
53. Which is NOT a value of Romanticism?
54. In which season was "Ode to the West Wind" written?
55. What idea was most emphasized during Romanticism?
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)
57. 'The Echhoing Green' presents a pure and idealised vision of childhood. What world best describes this?
58. How many stanzas are there in 'The World is too much with us'?
59. What is the technique called when a sentence or phrase runs over one line or stanza?
60. Creating credibility in a speech is using .....