To Wordsworth Quizzes

To Wordsworth Quiz

1 "To Wordsworth" is an example of which poetic genre?
sestina

sonnet

ode

couplet
2 Shelley highly regarded Wordsworth for his
Revolutionary politcal attitude

interest in Nature

dedication to "Truth and Liberty"

all are correct
3 In the first line, Shelley refers to Wordsworth as the "Poet of _____"
Revolution

Love

Nature

Politics
4 Upon the publication of Wordsworth's "The Excursion," Mary Shelley wrote in her diary that Wordsworth had become a _____
traitor

prophet

martyr

slave
5 "Thus having been, thou shouldst _____ to be"
strive

continue

fight

cease
6 Shelley frequently uses which poetic device to describe the changes he reads in Wordsworth?
personification

metaphor

simile

allusion
7 Which line acts as the poem's volta?
"Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve"

"Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood"

"Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know"

"Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shine"
8 We could also read the poem as _______
Shelley's elegy for the early, revolutionary Wordsworth

a diatribe on conservative political thinking

a call for Wordsworth to return to this previous poetic themes

a call-to-arms for political change
9 Alongside his lyrical poetry, Shelley is primarily known for his
sonnet sequence

epics

political poetry and treatises

memoirs
10 Shelley likens Wordsworth to
a pen

a lone star

a sword

a lonely ship
11 Shelley frequently uses language associated with
war

new life

celebration

mourning
12 Shelley's poem was a reaction to Wordsworth's political shift in which poem or collection of poems?
The Excursion

Lyrical Ballads

Resolution and Independence

The Prelude
13 Shelley left England for which country?
France

Italy

Spain

America
14 "Deplore" means
to compliment

to express disapproval

to uphold

to adore
15 Which does NOT describe the tone of the poem?
disappointed

understanding

angry

betrayed
16 Shelley alludes to which famous poem of Wordsworth's?
Ode: Intimations of Immortality

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Prelude

The world is too much with us
17 Wordworth's poetry frequently explored the themes of _____
Childhood

Liberty

all are correct

Nature
18 Which Romantic figure also responded in verse to the change in Wordsworth's political attitude?
Robert Browning

Thomas de Quincey

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19 The literary device used when addressing an absent figure is called:
metaphor

apostrophe

anaphora

alliteration
20 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Childhood and youth, friendship and love’s first glow"

"Poet of Nature"

"winter's midnight roar"

"Thou wert as a lone star"
21 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because of his pamphlet on ______
Catholicism

Vegetarianism

Atheism

Libertarianism
22 Shelley and other Romantic figures like William Hunt and John Keats frequently convened in which area of London?
Covent Garden

Hampstead Heath

Mayfair

St. James
23 Shelley's famous work containing the lines "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"
A Defence of Poetry

The Necessity of Atheism

Mont Blanc

Prometheus Unbound
24 Shelley was particularly close with which Romantic poet, going so far as to write the poem "Julian and Maddalo" about their relationship?
Lord Byron

Wordsworth

Keats

Coleridge
25 Which of the following is not a theme of the poem?
Grief

Nature

Loss

Reverence