Autumn (John Clare poem) Quizzes

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

Percy Shelly

John Keats

George Byron

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

Romantic

Modernist

Gothic

None of the above
3 When was John Clare born?

Early eighteenth century

Late eighteenth century

Early nineteenth century

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

Rejection of fantastical elements

Working-class background

Celebrating the natural landscape

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

Environmental crisis

Migration to cities

Invention of the internet

Worsening wealth inequality
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

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

He never achieved success in his life

His first book made him famous and successful for life
7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for?

Melancholy tone

Close attention to the natural world

Simple yet sophisticated verse

Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes
8 What is the meter of "Autumn"?

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)

Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed 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 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"?

Cloth made from thistles

The flowers of thistles

Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines

Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds
12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"?

A delicate fabric

A kind of bird

Whispering

Cobwebs
13 What is the "greensward"?

Fields left empty

The manor house

Grassy land

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

Mournful

Matter-of-fact

Celebratory

Awe-struck
15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker?

On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there

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

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread
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?

Juxtaposition

Metaphor

Irony

Parallelism
18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE?

The natural world can be awe-inspiring

It's worth looking closely at the natural world

The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist

The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat
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.

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed.

The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread,

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed,
20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze?

The fallow fields glitter like water indeed

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

And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed

Whoever looks round sees Eternity there
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"

Syntactical inversion

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

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;

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

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

The presence of the Christian God
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 and God

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

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