This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Romantic Poetry – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Poetry Quiz 6 (57 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Fridays are great; they start the weekend' This sentence uses which punctuation mark in the middle? A) Semi colon. B) Colon. C) Apostrophe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semi colon. 2. Bringing an audience together with your speech is ..... A) Divergence. B) Convergence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergence. 3. Which line consists visual imagery? A) Getting and spending we lay waste our powers;. B) The world is too much with us; late and soon,. C) For this, for everything, we are out of tune;. D) This Sea bares her bosom to the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) This Sea bares her bosom to the moon. 4. Identify the poetic devices Dickinson uses in the passages below. The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset-when the KingBe witnessed-in the Room-. A) Slant rhyme:firm and Room. B) Exact rhyme:firm and Room. C) Paradox:eyes wrung dry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme:firm and Room. 5. Romantic poetry was a reaction to what? A) The Reformation. B) The Industrial Revolution and The Enlightenment period. C) Too much farming. D) People not expressing their feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Industrial Revolution and The Enlightenment period. 6. Romantic artists loved A) Death. B) Nature. C) Education. D) Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 7. Who wrote 'To a Nightingale'? A) Smith. B) Blake. C) Wordsworth. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smith. 8. Who is the speaker in "The Chimney Sweeper" ? A) An old man. B) A young child. C) Tom Dacre. D) A chimney sweeper man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A young child. 9. What is the irony of "Ozymandias" ? A) Ozymandias thought he would be eternally powerful with his statue, yet the only lasting pieces of his legacy are in ruins. B) The expression of the "shattered visage" is actually comical since it is a frown upside down. C) The sculptor made a mistake when creating the statue, and that is why it has not lasted through time. D) The traveller turns out to be the "king of kings", something nobody saw coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ozymandias thought he would be eternally powerful with his statue, yet the only lasting pieces of his legacy are in ruins. 10. Who called Poetry the "expression of the imagination" ? A) Shakespeare. B) John Milton. C) Shelley. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shelley. 11. American Romantic writers rejected rationalism because they believed that A) The rationalist tradition had produced no worthwhile writers. B) Scientific reasoning discouraged intuition and spontaneity. C) Logical thought was not possible. D) Scientific thinking had not yet been well developed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientific reasoning discouraged intuition and spontaneity. 12. The poem is not actually a description of a tiger. Instead the poem ..... A) Asks questions about who or what created tigers. B) Questions if tigers should be kept in zoos. C) Describes a tiger hunting in forests. D) Asks readers to prevent tigers from becoming extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asks questions about who or what created tigers. 13. The picture of London created in the poem is A) Monotonous. B) Terrifying. C) Dull. D) Majestic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Majestic. 14. What did Romantic poets celebrate? A) How fantastic machines were. B) The power and usefulness of factories. C) The power and beauty of nature. D) The power and beauty of technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The power and beauty of nature. 15. The effects of urbanization were ..... A) Growth of food production. B) Poor living conditions, such as overcrowding. C) Better opportunities for education. D) People moving to the city for work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People moving to the city for work. 16. What type of sonnet is "When I Have Fears That May Cease to Be" ? A) Petrarchan. B) Shakespearean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespearean. 17. Who wrote 'the Ecchoing Green'? A) Shelley. B) Wordsworth. C) Shakespeare. D) Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blake. 18. Identify the simile from the following quotations from 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'. A) 'Earth has nothing to show that is more fair'. B) 'bright and glittering air'. C) 'Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie'. D) 'This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 'This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning'. 19. Which line from "Ode to the West Wind" best exemplifies the paradoxical nature of the wind's power in the poem? A) "Be through my lips to unawaken'd Earth". B) "The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, ". C) "Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams, ". D) "Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead". 20. What form does "Ozymandias" take? A) Haiku. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 21. In P. B. Shelley's "Ozymandias, " what specific poetic device creates a profound sense of irony and reinforces the theme of the impermanence of human achievements? A) Enjambment. B) Cesura. C) Pathetic fallacy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 22. Which tree is used as a symbol in the poem? A) Conifer. B) Oak. C) Fir. D) Large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oak. 23. What is the name of the painter mentioned in 'My Last Duchess'? A) Fra Pandolf. B) Claus of Inns Bruck. C) Browning. D) Da Vinci. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fra Pandolf. 24. What is, 'Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, ' an example of? A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. When the speaker of the poem refers to the Greek goddesses, Lethe and Psyche in "Ode on Melancholy, " he is using the literary device of ..... A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 26. The romantic poets of the Second Generation are: A) Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, John Keats. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley. C) Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats. 27. When Wordsworth writes 'golden' what does it help us imagine? A) There are many. B) They are dancing. C) They are bright and shiny. D) They are happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are bright and shiny. 28. The correct term for someone writes plays is ..... A) Writer. B) Novelist. C) Playwright. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playwright. 29. Which poem describes blood on 'palace walls'? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'London'. 30. What device does Lord Byron use in "When We Two Parted" when he says "They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear;" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 31. In the excerpt from John Keats' poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" what is the significance of the comparison between the speaker and "stout Cortez" ? A) It represents the speaker's admiration for Cortez's adventurous spirit. B) It suggests the speaker's sense of superiority over historical figures like Cortez. C) It symbolizes the transformative power of literature and art. D) It underscores the theme of cultural exploration and colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It symbolizes the transformative power of literature and art. 32. In the poem " Lines written in early spring" the poet is A) Near his house. B) Among daffodils. C) Under a group of trees. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under a group of trees. 33. Which poem includes a reference to the Thames river? A) 'London'. B) 'Ozymandias'. C) 'The Prelude'. D) 'My Last Duchess'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'London'. 34. Why is the knight in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" so pale and ill? A) The woman he met has physically injured him with a sword. B) The other kings and princes have taken the lady away from him. C) He has been emotionally enslaved by the woman. D) He has missed the harvest season and has no place to live. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He has been emotionally enslaved by the woman. 35. What is caesura? A) No regular rhyme/ rhythm in a poem. B) A break in the middle of a line-usually using ;, -. C) A group of set lines within a poem. D) A line or group of lines that regularly repeat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A break in the middle of a line-usually using ;, -. 36. What figurative language was being used by the author as the persona in the poem talked to death? A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 37. American Romantic novelists were particularly inspired by all of the following EXCEPT A) Individuality. B) Exotic settings and supernatural events. C) Childlike innocence. D) Exploration of logical function of the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exploration of logical function of the brain. 38. What does Keats write about in his third stanza?'lambs bleat'; 'crickets sing' A) The sounds of autumn. B) The smell of poppies. C) The daffodils dancing. D) The fruits on the trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sounds of autumn. 39. Who said that Shakespeare always keeps to the high road of life? A) Bradley. B) Coleridge. C) Arnold. D) Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 40. What is, 'Having a teenager as a Prime Minister is a terrible idea.' An example of? A) Statistic. B) Rhetorical question. C) Fact. D) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opinion. 41. In "The Chimney Sweeper, " where does Tom Dacre dream the various chimney sweepers are kept? A) In a grand palace. B) In their master's basement. C) In a fine hotel. D) In black coffins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In black coffins. 42. Mary Shelley wrote 'Frankenstein'? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. In "The World is Too Much with Us" what accounts for people being "out of tune" ? A) Over involvement with religion. B) Over involvement with economic aspects of life. C) Over crowded conditions of urban life. D) Disregard for others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over involvement with economic aspects of life. 44. These poets died young, far from home, far from their land. (sinful life) A) Both. B) The first generation of romantic poets. C) The second generation of romantic poets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The second generation of romantic poets. 45. Wordsworth was a Romantic poet A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 46. The final sestet of a sonnet often offers a solution to the problem introduced in the octave. What is Wordsworth's rather radical solution to the increasingly consumerist society in 'The World is Too Much With Us'? A) That all the factories in the Industrial Revolution can be burnt down. B) Wishing to be a pagan so that people in society would worship and admire him. C) Wishing to be a pagan so he can believe in ancient gods and receive spiritual solace in nature. D) He wishes to show his chest to the moon in a physical embrace of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wishing to be a pagan so he can believe in ancient gods and receive spiritual solace in nature. 47. The Enlightenment was a period of time that centred around the idea that ..... was the most important value. A) Music and laughter. B) Singing and dancing. C) Logic and reason. D) Poetry and reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logic and reason. 48. What does the speaker in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" NOT mention? (a) A) A The hardships of life in the country. B) Young boys dancing for his love. C) The pleasures and simplicity of life. D) Luxurious clothing made for his love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A The hardships of life in the country. 49. Referring to a work of art without naming it directly is ..... A) An illusion. B) An allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An allusion. 50. In the line 'It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be', Wordsworth uses ..... to disrupt the rhythm, thus emphasising his passion. A) Asyndetic listing. B) Enjambment. C) Multi-connectors. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting. 51. What mood does Wordsworth create in the poem? A) Peaceful. B) Worried. C) Angry. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peaceful. 52. "Ode on Melancholy" BEST fits which of the following tenets of Romanticism? A) Passionate Emotion. B) Nature as a Source of Spiritual Nourishment. C) Idealism of the world. D) An Innate Goodness and Innocence in Humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Passionate Emotion. 53. In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth stated that he had chosen to write about "humble and rustic life" because A) The essential emotions are less restrained and therefore more interesting. B) It provided more unusual situations and experiences as subject matter for poetry. C) He wanted to expose and thus improve the social condition of the poor and exploited. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The essential emotions are less restrained and therefore more interesting. 54. The most distinctive mark which distinguished the Romantic poets from the Neo-Classical poets was A) Imagination. B) Town and Cultural society. C) Poetry of argument and Criticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagination. 55. Their souls expand outward to cover the distance between them as A) A fixed foot. B) A soft metal is beaten to spread thinly over a larger surface area. C) A drafting compass. D) Circles and spheres. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A soft metal is beaten to spread thinly over a larger surface area. 56. In stanza seven, what happens to "the best laid plans of mice and men" ? A) They go wrong, because we are conceited and expect everything to work out. B) They may cause grief and pain only to be joyous later. C) Mouse and human plans cannot be compared. D) They go wrong, leaving us pain and grief. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They go wrong, leaving us pain and grief. 57. "Henry David Thoreau" wrote about all of the following except A) -wrote about natural history and philosophy. B) -Wrote "Walden" (1854). C) About his time living alone in a shack. D) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomantic Poetry Quiz 1Romantic Poetry Quiz 2Romantic Poetry Quiz 3Romantic Poetry Quiz 4Romantic Poetry Quiz 5American Poetry QuizMetaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books