First Love (John Clare poem) Quizzes

First Love (John Clare poem) "First Love"

1 What literary movement did John Clare belong to?

Romantic

Modernist

Classical

Gothic
2 Where was Clare born?

Belfast

New Delhi

London

Helpstone
3 What was John Clare's economic background?

Lower-middle class

Peasant

Gentry

Upper-middle class
4 Who of the following is NOT one of Clare's contemporaries?

Percy Shelley

George Byron

John Keats

Ted Hughes
5 How did Clare's status change over the course of his life?

He did not achieve fame until after his death

His first book was popular, and he remained well-known throughout his life

He never achieved fame

His first book was famous, and then he gradually declined in the public eye
6 Who was the likely subject of "First Love"?

Mary Joyce

Clare's mother

We don't know

Patty Turner
7 What emotion does "First Love" describe?

A sweet, innocent crush

Sudden, overwhelming love

The closeness of still being with your first love after years together

Raw passion and lust
8 Which of the following best characterize's Clare's use of figurative language in the beginning of "First Love"?

Shocking

Non-existent

Subtle yet unusual

Conventional
9 Which line of the final stanza of "First Love" MOST closely parallels a line from the first stanza?

She seemed to hear my silent voice

My heart has left its dwelling-place

Is love’s bed always snow?

Are flowers the winter’s choice?
10 Which line from the first stanza is an example of idiom?

And stole my heart away complete.

Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower

My face turned pale as deadly pale

I ne’er was struck before that hour
11 Which line from the first stanza is an example of simile?

With love so sudden and so sweet

My face turned pale as deadly pale

My legs refused to walk away

And stole my heart away complete
12 Which line marks a shift in tone in the first stanza?

With love so sudden and so sweet

My life and all seemed turned to clay

My legs refused to walk away

My face turned pale as deadly pale
13 Which word does NOT appear in both the first and last stanzas?

Never

Flower

Stole

Heart
14 How does the treatment of the heart in the first and second stanza change?

The second stanza does not use the heart symbolically

The second stanza employs more bodily and visceral imagery

The second stanza uses more conventional imagery

The second stanza uses the heart to emphasize love's transformative powers
15 Which of the following is an example of personification?

My legs refused to walk away

Words from my eyes did start

The trees and bushes round the place / Seemed midnight at noonday

Blood burnt round my heart
16 Which of the following best translates the meaning of line 7, "And when she looked, what could I ail?"

And with her looking at me, what could I do to fight back?

And with her looking at me, what could hurt me?

And with her looking at me, I suddenly felt sick

And with her looking at me, how could I escape?
17 What does the speaker suggest about love's impact on the body in the second stanza?

Love transforms the body into a different kind of object with new purposes

Love lets the body take over the mind, which is why it's so important to avoid

Love makes the body useless and incapable of achieving its aims

Love has nothing to do with the body, but is a purely emotional experience
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of paradox?

Are flowers the winter's choice?

She seemed to hear my silent voice, / Not love's appeals to know

The trees and bushes round the place / Seemed midnight at noonday

My face turned pale as deadly pale
19 What does Clare's use of paradox enable him to say about love?

Love is driving the speaker mad

Love is foolish because it doesn't make any sense

Love gives new laws to the world of ordinary things

Love transports us to a fantasy world with wholly new objects
20 What perspective is "First Love" written from?

Second-person limited

Third-person omniscient

First-person omniscient

First-person limited
21 What period of time does "First Love" describe?

Many years of devotion

The first few days of a relationship

A single instant

A few moments of intense experience
22 What is the meter of "First Love"?

Trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

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

Trochaic pentameter (five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)
23 What is the rhyme scheme of "First Love"?

ABABCDCD

AABBCCDD

ABCDABCD

ABABABAB
24 Which of the following does not include alliteration?

And blood burnt round my heart.

With love so sudden and so sweet

Not love's appeals to know

I never saw so sweet a face
25 What is the major conflict in "First Love"?

Between ordinary reality and the strange world of love

Between the speaker's desire and his religious convictions

Between the speaker and his uninterested beloved

Between the speaker's desire for sanity and his overwhelming feelings

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