1 "Seasons of mists and ______ fruitfulness" mighty fated mellow fancy 2 Before devoting his life to poetry, Keats studied to become a ______ banker blacksmith doctor lawyer 3 Keats is associated with which literary movement? Renaissance literature Romanticism Modernism Victorian literature 4 "To Autumn" falls under the category of which poetic genre? ballad hymn ode sestina 5 Which literary device does Keats frequently use when he refers to autumn? metonymy personification metaphor simile 6 Which of the following is not a driving theme of the poem? Innocence and Experience Love Nature Death 7 "Where are the _____ of spring? Ay, Where are they?" signs sorrows sounds songs 8 Which personification of autumn appears in the poem? a gardener an apple picker an old man a gleaner 9 Which poetic device does not appear in the poem? personification onomatopeia simile metonymy 10 Considering the poem's historical context, which of the following is the poem's likeliest setting? Southern France America the English countryside Italy 11 Which best describes the tone of "To Autumn"? eager understated angry anxious 12 "Close-bosomed friend of the maturing _____" sun flower day mystery 13 Which of the following words would the speaker not use to characterize autumn? drows'd careless patient eager 14 In the last stanza, the speaker does NOT hear.... bees buzzing lambs bleating birds whistling crickets singing 15 Around the time Keats' composed "To Autumn," which event did NOT occur in this life? he had fallen in love with Fanny Brawne he had experienced a remarkable period of poetic productivity he had moved to Italy his brother Tom had died of tuberculosis 16 In addition to poetry, Keats was a prolific writer of ______ contracts plays novels letters 17 Which is an example of onomatopoeia in the poem? "For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells." "And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep/ Steady thy laden head across the brook" "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" "Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft/ The red breast whistles..." 18 What metaphor does Keats use to describe the difference between spring and autumn? time love death music 19 Why did Keats move to Italy at the end of 1820? for his health to meet with an editor to be with his family to be with Fanny Brawne 20 Keats went on a walking tour of Ireland and Scotland with which English poet? Charles Armitage Brown Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron Percy Shelley 21 What was Keats' first major, published poem? Bright Star Ode on a Grecian Urn Endymion To Autumn 22 Who was the London editor who supported Keats' early work? Leigh Hunt Charles Armitage Brown Percy Shelley Joseph Severn 23 Keats articulated his idea of negative capability in a letter a conversation with a friend a play a poem 24 In Keats' life, 1819 is known most as the year he fell ill with tuberculoisis his miracle year the year he met Fanny Brawne the year he moved to italy 25 How many odes did Keats write? five three four six
