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

George Byron

John Keats
2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to?

Romantic

Modernist

Gothic

None of the above
3 When was John Clare born?

Late eighteenth century

Mid eighteenth century

Early eighteenth century

Early nineteenth century
4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics?

Working-class background

Celebrating the natural landscape

Rejection of fantastical elements

Focus on the English countryside
5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing?

Migration to cities

Environmental crisis

Worsening wealth inequality

Invention of the internet
6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of his life?

He never achieved success in his life

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

He gradually became well-known over the course of his career

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

Melancholy tone

Close attention to the natural world

Simple yet sophisticated verse
8 What is the meter of "Autumn"?

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

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

Free verse (no fixed meter)

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

AABB

ABAB

AABC

No fixed rhyme scheme
10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"?

The poem is written by a group of people

The poem is written from God's perspective

The speaker has to forget himself to experience the sublime

The speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is
11 What is "thistledown"?

Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds

Cloth made from thistles

The flowers of thistles

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

Cobwebs

Whispering

A delicate fabric

A kind of bird
13 What is the "greensward"?

The manor house

Fields left empty

Land designated for farming

Grassy land
14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza?

Awe-struck

Mournful

Matter-of-fact

Celebratory
15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker?

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

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there
16 What is the mood of the second stanza?

Cheerful

Sublime

Melancholy

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

Metaphor

Juxtaposition

Parallelism
18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE?

It's worth looking closely at the natural world

The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat

The natural world can be awe-inspiring

The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist
19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape?

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

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed,

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread,

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

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed
21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language?

Lines 3 and 9

Lines 5 and 7

Lines 3 and 11

Lines 3 and 5
22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air"

Metaphor

Syntactical inversion

Alliteration

Parallel
23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?

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

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

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

The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot;
24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line?

A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime

A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world

The presence of the Christian God

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

Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty

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

Between the speaker and God

Between summer's heat and winter's cold

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