Romantic and Nature Poetry

Question 1

'He clasps the crag with crooked hands/Close to the sun in lonely lands/Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.' is from

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The Eagle

Question 2

Personification is giving human characteristics to something that is not human.

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True

Question 3

'With infinite affection/And infiniter care,/Her golden finger on her lip,/Wills silence everywhere.' is from:

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Nature, Gentlest Mother

Question 4

An adjective is

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A word to describe a noun

Question 5

'What immortal hand or eye/ Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?' is from the poem...

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The Tyger

Question 6

'Nature’s first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold./Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.' is from:

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Question 7

How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter?

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10

Question 8

What is a metaphor?

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Comparing something in a way that isn’t literal

Question 9

How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter?

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10

Question 10

What is Romanticism?

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Poetic movement that focused on nature and emotion

Question 11

True or false: form and structure describes the type of poem and the way a poem is organised on the page.

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True

Question 12

Which one did not write during the Romantic era

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William Shakespeare

Question 13

What is a syllable?

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The number of rhythmic beats in a word

Question 14

Parts of speech: a verb is

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An action word

Question 15

How many lines does a sonnet contain?

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14

Question 16

True or false: the first syllable is stressed in an iamb

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False

Question 17

The Romantic era is thought to have been

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The late 18th and early 19th centuries (1700s to 1800s)

Question 18

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate' is from:

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Sonnet 18

Question 19

True or false: A caesura is a pause in poetry, usually signalled by punctuation.

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True

Question 20

'I wander'd lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills' is from the poem

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Daffodils

Question 21

What is sibilance?

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Repetition of the 's' sound

Question 22

How many poetic lines are in a couplet?

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2

Question 23

'And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,Would scarcely know that we were gone.' is from the poem:

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There Will Come Soft Rains

Question 24

True or false: iambic pentameter sounds like a heartbeat

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True

Question 25

An adverb is

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A word to describe a verb

Question 26

True or false: Stop! or 'Sit down. Now.' are exampless of an imperatives.

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True

Question 27

How many poetic lines are in an octave?

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8

Question 28

Alliteration is

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Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words

Question 29

How many poetic lines are in an sestet?

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6

Question 30

Alliteration is

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Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words

Question 31

'Then leaf subsides to leaf./So Eden sank to grief,/So dawn goes down to day./Nothing gold can stay.' What rhyme scheme?

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AABB

Question 32

An allusion is

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An indirect or passing reference

Question 33

'Higher still and higher/From the earth thou springest,/Like a cloud of fire;/The blue deep thou wingest,' is from:

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Skylark

Question 34

When poets use enjambment there is punctuation at the end of the line of poetry.

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False

Question 35

'A skylark hang between the two,/ A singing speck above the corn'is from the poem:

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A Green Cornfield

Question 36

A noun is

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A person, place, thing or idea

Question 37

The Romantic Era came before or after the Enlightenment?

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After

Question 38

Select the word that is an example of onomatopoeia

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sizzle

Question 39

What is a simile?

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A comparison of two things, using like or as

Question 40

How many poetic lines are in a quatrain?

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4

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