This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Romantic Poetry – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Poetry Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. At what time did Romantic poets start writing? A) During the Natural Revolution. B) During the Industrial Revolution. C) While Shakespeare was writing his plays. D) In the medieval period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) During the Industrial Revolution. 2. What is a simple sentence? A) This sentence must contain a 'subject' and a main verb. It usually has an 'object', too. This is also a main clause. B) This sentence contains two main clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. C) This sentence contains a main clause and a subordinate clause. Clauses are joined by using a subordinating conjunction or a comma. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This sentence must contain a 'subject' and a main verb. It usually has an 'object', too. This is also a main clause. 3. Wordsworth's poem I wandered lonely as a cloud has A) Three stanzas. B) Four stanzas. C) Five stanzas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four stanzas. 4. What is blocking the speaker of 'The Prelude's view of the stars? A) A huge mountain. B) The sky has turned pitch black. C) He has his eyes closed. D) The star's fires have gone out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A huge mountain. 5. What is Keats conveying in the first stanza of 'Ode on Melancholy' when he exclaims, No, no! go not to Lethe? A) You should not forget your melancholy. B) You should not torment yourself. C) You should not leave your home. D) You should not abandon those you care about. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You should not forget your melancholy. 6. Which is the best definition for 'materialism'? A) Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. B) Lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure. C) The process of making an area more urban. D) A tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. 7. What is writing to persuade? A) Texts that are based on facts. B) Communicating information to your audience. C) Try to convince the reader to agree with your viewpoint. D) A written argument is often presented as a debate between opposing views-you acknowledge both sides of the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Try to convince the reader to agree with your viewpoint. 8. 'She has the heart of a lion' is a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. 'Paradise Lost' was written by ..... A) Keats. B) Byron. C) Shelley. D) Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Milton. 10. Romanticism developed as a result of the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Which lines rhyme in each quatrain? A) The first and the last. B) The second and the third. C) The third and the fourth. D) The second and the last. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The second and the last. 12. What is the poetic device used in these lines, Crying "weep! weep!" in the notes of woe? A) Enjabment. B) Alliteration. C) End stopped line. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. What is a guillotine? A) Prison in paris. B) Fat part of a steak. C) September Massacre. D) Device used to cut off people's heads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Device used to cut off people's heads. 14. The poem begins at day time with references to light, but ends with 'the darkening green'. This could be seen as a metaphor for ..... A) The sadness of Blake. B) The industrialisation of England. C) The cyclical nature of life. D) The desire to have a family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cyclical nature of life. 15. Symbols had a pure figurative function in Romantic poetry. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. "She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years" The poet here thought that A) Lucy was not immune to the ravages of time. B) Lucy was beautiful and melancholic. C) Lucy was in love with Nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucy was not immune to the ravages of time. 17. The poem's rhyme scheme is (a) A) A abab cdcd efef ghgh. B) Ababcdcdefefghgh. C) Aabbccddeeffgghh. D) Abab Abab Abab Abab Abab. E) Aba cdc efe ghg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A abab cdcd efef ghgh. 18. Complete the quotation:'Great God! I would rather be a ..... ' A) Vegan. B) Pagan. C) Fish. D) Traveller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pagan. 19. Central character in Wordsworth 's poem Michael? A) Mike. B) Eddie. C) Jake. D) Luke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luke. 20. What happened to Keats's parents when he was young? A) They moved away. B) They died. C) They put him in an orphanage. D) They divorced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They died. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRomantic Poetry Quiz 1Romantic Poetry Quiz 2Romantic Poetry Quiz 3Romantic Poetry Quiz 4Romantic Poetry Quiz 5Romantic Poetry Quiz 6Romantic Poetry Quiz 7Romantic Poetry Quiz 8Romantic Poetry Quiz 9Romantic Poetry Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books