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?
Modernist

Gothic

Romantic

None of the above
3 When was John Clare born?
Early nineteenth century

Late eighteenth century

Early eighteenth century

Mid eighteenth century
4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics?
Focus on the English countryside

Rejection of fantastical elements

Working-class background

Celebrating the natural landscape
5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing?
Worsening wealth inequality

Migration to cities

Environmental crisis

Invention of the internet
6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of 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 never achieved success in his life

He gradually became well-known over the course of his career
7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for?
Close attention to the natural world

Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes

Melancholy tone

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)

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"?
ABAB

AABB

No fixed rhyme scheme

AABC
10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"?
The poem is written by a group of people

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 from God's perspective
11 What is "thistledown"?
Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines

Cloth made from thistles

Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds

The flowers of thistles
12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"?
Cobwebs

Whispering

A kind of bird

A delicate fabric
13 What is the "greensward"?
The manor house

Grassy land

Fields left empty

Land designated for farming
14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza?
Mournful

Celebratory

Matter-of-fact

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

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

On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread
16 What is the mood of the second stanza?
Sublime

Melancholy

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

Parallelism

Metaphor

Juxtaposition
18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE?
It's worth looking closely at the natural world

The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist

The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat

The natural world can be awe-inspiring
19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape?
The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread,

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

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed,

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed.
20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze?
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

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed
21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language?
Lines 3 and 11

Lines 3 and 5

Lines 3 and 9

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

Metaphor

Alliteration

Syntactical inversion
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.

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

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

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