To Autumn (Keats poem) Quizzes

To Autumn (Keats poem) Quiz

1 "Seasons of mists and ______ fruitfulness"
mighty

fated

fancy

mellow
2 Before devoting his life to poetry, Keats studied to become a ______
doctor

banker

lawyer

blacksmith
3 Keats is associated with which literary movement?
Romanticism

Modernism

Renaissance literature

Victorian literature
4 "To Autumn" falls under the category of which poetic genre?
ballad

hymn

sestina

ode
5 Which literary device does Keats frequently use when he refers to autumn?
metonymy

simile

metaphor

personification
6 Which of the following is not a driving theme of the poem?
Nature

Death

Love

Innocence and Experience
7 "Where are the _____ of spring? Ay, Where are they?"
sorrows

sounds

signs

songs
8 Which personification of autumn appears in the poem?
an old man

a gardener

an apple picker

a gleaner
9 Which poetic device does not appear in the poem?
personification

metonymy

simile

onomatopeia
10 Considering the poem's historical context, which of the following is the poem's likeliest setting?
the English countryside

America

Southern France

Italy
11 Which best describes the tone of "To Autumn"?
anxious

eager

angry

understated
12 "Close-bosomed friend of the maturing _____"
flower

day

mystery

sun
13 Which of the following words would the speaker not use to characterize autumn?
careless

patient

drows'd

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 experienced a remarkable period of poetic productivity

he had fallen in love with Fanny Brawne

he had moved to Italy

his brother Tom had died of tuberculosis
16 In addition to poetry, Keats was a prolific writer of ______
plays

letters

novels

contracts
17 Which is an example of onomatopoeia in the poem?
"Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft/ The red breast whistles..."

"For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells."

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"

"And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep/ Steady thy laden head across the brook"
18 What metaphor does Keats use to describe the difference between spring and autumn?
time

death

music

love
19 Why did Keats move to Italy at the end of 1820?
to meet with an editor

to be with his family

to be with Fanny Brawne

for his health
20 Keats went on a walking tour of Ireland and Scotland with which English poet?
Charles Armitage Brown

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 What was Keats' first major, published poem?
To Autumn

Bright Star

Endymion

Ode on a Grecian Urn
22 Who was the London editor who supported Keats' early work?
Joseph Severn

Percy Shelley

Leigh Hunt

Charles Armitage Brown
23 Keats articulated his idea of negative capability in
a letter

a poem

a conversation with a friend

a play
24 In Keats' life, 1819 is known most as
the year he fell ill with tuberculoisis

the year he met Fanny Brawne

his miracle year

the year he moved to italy
25 How many odes did Keats write?
six

three

five

four

Which of the following best describes autumn as explored in the second stanza

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Explain the evolution of thought in " ode to autmn"

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John Keats is remarkably sensitive to the combination of pleasure and pain, to the vitality of nature and to the longing of death. Comment on this statement with reference of John Keats' poetry

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