Autumn (John Clare poem) Quizzes

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

John Keats

George Byron

Percy Shelly
2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to?
Modernist

Romantic

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?
Focus on the English countryside

Celebrating the natural landscape

Working-class background

Rejection of fantastical elements
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

His first book made him famous and successful for life

He gradually became well-known over the course of his career
7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for?
Melancholy tone

Close attention to the natural world

Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes

Simple yet sophisticated verse
8 What is the meter of "Autumn"?
Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Free verse (no fixed meter)

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

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

AABC

No fixed rhyme scheme

AABB
10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"?
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

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

Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds

Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines

Cloth made from thistles
12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"?
Cobwebs

A kind of bird

A delicate fabric

Whispering
13 What is the "greensward"?
The manor house

Grassy land

Land designated for farming

Fields left empty
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?
The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread

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

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there

On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill
16 What is the mood of the second stanza?
Cheerful

Melancholy

Sublime

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?
The natural world can be awe-inspiring

The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist

The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat

It's worth looking closely at the natural world
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,

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed.

The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.
20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze?
The fallow fields glitter like water indeed

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed

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

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there
21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language?
Lines 3 and 9

Lines 3 and 11

Lines 3 and 5

Lines 5 and 7
22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air"
Syntactical inversion

Parallel

Alliteration

Metaphor
23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?
The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot;

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

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

The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.
24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line?
The presence of the Christian God

A sense of one's own mortality in comparison to the natural world

A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world

A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime
25 What is the primary conflict of "Autumn"?
Between summer's heat and winter's cold

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

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