Autumn (John Clare poem) Quizzes

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1 Who of the following was NOT a contemporary of John Clare?
Silvia Plath

Percy Shelly

John Keats

George Byron
2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to?
Romantic

Gothic

Modernist

None of the above
3 When was John Clare born?
Late eighteenth century

Mid eighteenth century

Early nineteenth century

Early eighteenth century
4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics?
Celebrating the natural landscape

Rejection of fantastical elements

Focus on the English countryside

Working-class background
5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing?
Migration to cities

Worsening wealth inequality

Environmental crisis

Invention of the internet
6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of his life?
He gradually became well-known over the course of his career

He never achieved success in his life

His first book was a runaway success, but then he faded into obscurity

His first book made him famous and successful for life
7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for?
Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes

Close attention to the natural world

Simple yet sophisticated verse

Melancholy tone
8 What is the meter of "Autumn"?
Free verse (no fixed meter)

Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Trochaic hexameter (six pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic hexameter (six pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
9 What is the rhyme scheme of "Autumn"?
AABB

ABAB

No fixed rhyme scheme

AABC
10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"?
The speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is

The speaker has to forget himself to experience the sublime

The poem is written by a group of people

The poem is written from God's perspective
11 What is "thistledown"?
The flowers of thistles

Cloth made from thistles

Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds

Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines
12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"?
Whispering

Cobwebs

A kind of bird

A delicate fabric
13 What is the "greensward"?
Fields left empty

Land designated for farming

Grassy land

The manor house
14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza?
Matter-of-fact

Celebratory

Mournful

Awe-struck
15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker?
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread

On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill

And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run
16 What is the mood of the second stanza?
Melancholy

Sublime

Cheerful

None of the above
17 In the context of the second stanza, the line "The fallow fields glitter like water indeed" is an example of what literary device?
Irony

Juxtaposition

Parallelism

Metaphor
18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE?
The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat

The natural world can be awe-inspiring

It's worth looking closely at the natural world

The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist
19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape?
The fallow fields glitter like water indeed,

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread,

The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed.
20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze?
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there

And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed
21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language?
Lines 5 and 7

Lines 3 and 5

Lines 3 and 9

Lines 3 and 11
22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air"
Metaphor

Parallel

Alliteration

Syntactical inversion
23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;

The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot;

The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line?
A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world

The presence of the Christian God

A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime

A sense of one's own mortality in comparison to the natural world
25 What is the primary conflict of "Autumn"?
Between the speaker and God

Between summer's heat and winter's cold

Between the speaker's desire to find the landscape beautiful and the reality of its ugliness

Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty

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