First Love (John Clare poem) Quizzes

First Love (John Clare poem) "First Love"

1 What literary movement did John Clare belong to?

Gothic

Classical

Modernist

Romantic
2 Where was Clare born?

London

New Delhi

Helpstone

Belfast
3 What was John Clare's economic background?

Peasant

Gentry

Lower-middle class

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

John Keats

Ted Hughes

Percy Shelley

George Byron
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"?

We don't know

Clare's mother

Patty Turner

Mary Joyce
7 What emotion does "First Love" describe?

Raw passion and lust

Sudden, overwhelming love

A sweet, innocent crush

The closeness of still being with your first love after years together
8 Which of the following best characterize's Clare's use of figurative language in the beginning of "First Love"?

Subtle yet unusual

Non-existent

Shocking

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

Are flowers the winter’s choice?

Is love’s bed always snow?

My heart has left its dwelling-place

She seemed to hear my silent voice
10 Which line from the first stanza is an example of idiom?

I ne’er was struck before that hour

Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower

My face turned pale as deadly pale

And stole my heart away complete.
11 Which line from the first stanza is an example of simile?

And stole my heart away complete

My face turned pale as deadly pale

With love so sudden and so sweet

My legs refused to walk away
12 Which line marks a shift in tone in the first stanza?

My life and all seemed turned to clay

My legs refused to walk away

My face turned pale as deadly pale

With love so sudden and so sweet
13 Which word does NOT appear in both the first and last stanzas?

Flower

Never

Heart

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

The second stanza uses more conventional imagery

The second stanza employs more bodily and visceral imagery

The second stanza uses the heart to emphasize love's transformative powers

The second stanza does not use the heart symbolically
15 Which of the following is an example of personification?

Blood burnt round my heart

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

Words from my eyes did start

My legs refused to walk away
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, how could I escape?

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
17 What does the speaker suggest about love's impact on the body in the second stanza?

Love has nothing to do with the body, but is a purely emotional experience

Love makes the body useless and incapable of achieving its aims

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
18 Which of the following is NOT an example of paradox?

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

Are flowers the winter's choice?
19 What does Clare's use of paradox enable him to say about love?

Love gives new laws to the world of ordinary things

Love is driving the speaker mad

Love transports us to a fantasy world with wholly new objects

Love is foolish because it doesn't make any sense
20 What perspective is "First Love" written from?

First-person limited

Second-person limited

Third-person omniscient

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

Many years of devotion

The first few days of a relationship

A few moments of intense experience

A single instant
22 What is the meter of "First Love"?

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

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

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

Iambic tetrameter (four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
23 What is the rhyme scheme of "First Love"?

ABCDABCD

ABABCDCD

AABBCCDD

ABABABAB
24 Which of the following does not include alliteration?

Not love's appeals to know

I never saw so sweet a face

With love so sudden and so sweet

And blood burnt round my heart.
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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