Autumn (John Clare poem) Quizzes

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

Percy Shelly

George Byron

Silvia Plath
2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to?
Gothic

Romantic

Modernist

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

Mid eighteenth century

Early nineteenth century

Late eighteenth century
4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics?
Rejection of fantastical elements

Focus on the English countryside

Working-class background

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

Invention of the internet

Environmental crisis

Worsening wealth inequality
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?
Simple yet sophisticated verse

Melancholy tone

Close attention to the natural world

Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes
8 What is the meter of "Autumn"?
Trochaic hexameter (six pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

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

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

Free verse (no fixed meter)
9 What is the rhyme scheme of "Autumn"?
AABC

ABAB

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 speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is

The poem is written from God's perspective

The poem is written by a group of people
11 What is "thistledown"?
Cloth made from thistles

The flowers of 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 delicate fabric

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

Fields left empty

The manor house

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

Matter-of-fact

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

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
16 What is the mood of the second stanza?
Sublime

Cheerful

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?
Parallelism

Irony

Metaphor

Juxtaposition
18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE?
The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist

The natural world can be awe-inspiring

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,

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?
The fallow fields glitter like water indeed

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed

And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run
21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language?
Lines 3 and 5

Lines 3 and 11

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

Syntactical inversion

Alliteration

Metaphor
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 summer's heat and winter's cold

Between the speaker and God

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

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