This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Metaphysical Poetry – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 7 (18 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device does Lovelace include in the first couple lines of "To Althea, from prison" ? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 2. What are some characteristics of metaphysical poetry? A) Similes, hyperbole, and ballad like verse. B) Strange imagery, frequent paradox, extremely complicated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strange imagery, frequent paradox, extremely complicated. 3. "How Soon Hath Time" is actually written in the form of a sonnet, with a distinct change or shift in tone/ideas (also known as a volta). Where does this shift occur? A) Line 5. B) Line 9. C) Line 13. D) Line 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line 9. 4. What is the major metaphysical conceit present in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" ? A) The speaker compares their love to gold. B) The speaker compares himself and his love to a compass. C) The speaker compares their departure like a good man's death. D) The speaker compares earthquakes with the movement of planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker compares himself and his love to a compass. 5. Which poet never received a college degree because he was Roman Catholic and refused to the Protestant allegiance oath? A) John Milton. B) John Donne. C) Andrew Marvell. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. 6. Choose the word that means-Break; split. A) Laity. B) Profanation. C) Breach. D) Obliquely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Breach. 7. What is this an example of:The clouds cried tears of rain. A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. Which poet never received a college degree because he was Roman Catholic and refused the Protestant allegiance oath? A) John Donne. B) John Milton. C) Ben Johnson. D) Andrew Marvel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Donne. 9. Greed. A) Impious. B) Sanctitude. C) Covetousness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Covetousness. 10. What is an example of metaphysical conceit used in the poem "A valediction:Forbidden Mourning?" A) The author and his wife's souls compared to the two points of a compass that though they part, are always joined. B) The speaker lying in bed sick and being compared to a map being studied by doctors. C) The sun being called a bright morning star and the day's harbinger. D) The stars being called luminaries in the sky to light up the night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author and his wife's souls compared to the two points of a compass that though they part, are always joined. 11. Manner of expression; how a speaker or writer says what he says. A) Literary Epic. B) Style. C) Syntax. D) Diction. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Style. 12. Giving attributes of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. Define contention. A) A compliment. B) An agreement. C) A struggle. D) Friendship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A struggle. 14. Who said this "'A thought to Donne was an experience It modified his sensibility" about John Donne? A) W. B. Yeats. B) T. S. Eliot. C) Abraham Cowley. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot. 15. He is the founder and a pioneer of Metaphysical Poetry A) Terry Bradshaw. B) William Shakespeare. C) John Donne. D) Charles I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. 16. What is the rhyme scheme for "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" ? A) Father. B) ABCB. C) ABBA. D) AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 17. Choose the word that means-an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted; state of seclusion. A) Cloister. B) Profanation. C) Breach. D) Obliquely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cloister. 18. Which author is considered a metaphysical poet? A) Robert Herrick. B) John Donne. C) Andrew Marvell. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesMetaphysical Poetry Quiz 1Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 2Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 3Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 4Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 5Metaphysical Poetry Quiz 6American Poetry QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizProsody QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books