First Love (John Clare poem) Quizzes

First Love (John Clare poem) "First Love"

1 What literary movement did John Clare belong to?

Gothic

Classical

Romantic

Modernist
2 Where was Clare born?

Belfast

Helpstone

New Delhi

London
3 What was John Clare's economic background?

Upper-middle class

Peasant

Gentry

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

John Keats

Percy Shelley

Ted Hughes

George Byron
5 How did Clare's status change over the course of his life?

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

He did not achieve fame until after his death

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

We don't know

Clare's mother

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

Raw passion and lust

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

Sudden, overwhelming love

A sweet, innocent crush
8 Which of the following best characterize's Clare's use of figurative language in the beginning of "First Love"?

Conventional

Shocking

Subtle yet unusual

Non-existent
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

And stole my heart away complete.

Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower

My face turned pale as deadly pale
11 Which line from the first stanza is an example of simile?

My face turned pale as deadly pale

With love so sudden and so sweet

And stole my heart away complete

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

My face turned pale as deadly pale

With love so sudden and so sweet

My life and all seemed turned to clay

My legs refused to walk away
13 Which word does NOT appear in both the first and last stanzas?

Never

Heart

Flower

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

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

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
15 Which of the following is an example of personification?

Words from my eyes did start

My legs refused to walk away

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, I suddenly felt sick

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, how could I escape?
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 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
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 transports us to a fantasy world with wholly new objects

Love is foolish because it doesn't make any sense

Love is driving the speaker mad
20 What perspective is "First Love" written from?

Second-person limited

First-person limited

First-person omniscient

Third-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)

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

ABCDABCD

AABBCCDD

ABABABAB
24 Which of the following does not include alliteration?

With love so sudden and so sweet

And blood burnt round my heart.

I never saw so sweet a face

Not love's appeals to know
25 What is the major conflict in "First Love"?

Between ordinary reality and the strange world of love

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

Between the speaker and his uninterested beloved

Between the speaker's desire and his religious convictions

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