To Wordsworth Quizzes

To Wordsworth Quiz

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

ode

sonnet

couplet
2 Shelley highly regarded Wordsworth for his
interest in Nature

all are correct

dedication to "Truth and Liberty"

Revolutionary politcal attitude
3 In the first line, Shelley refers to Wordsworth as the "Poet of _____"
Love

Nature

Politics

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

traitor

martyr

prophet
5 "Thus having been, thou shouldst _____ to be"
continue

strive

cease

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

allusion

metaphor

simile
7 Which line acts as the poem's volta?
"Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know"

"Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve"

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

"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-to-arms for political change

a call for Wordsworth to return to this previous poetic themes
9 Alongside his lyrical poetry, Shelley is primarily known for his
political poetry and treatises

epics

memoirs

sonnet sequence
10 Shelley likens Wordsworth to
a sword

a pen

a lone star

a lonely ship
11 Shelley frequently uses language associated with
celebration

new life

war

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

Lyrical Ballads

Resolution and Independence

The Excursion
13 Shelley left England for which country?
France

Spain

America

Italy
14 "Deplore" means
to express disapproval

to adore

to uphold

to compliment
15 Which does NOT describe the tone of the poem?
betrayed

disappointed

angry

understanding
16 Shelley alludes to which famous poem of Wordsworth's?
The world is too much with us

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Prelude
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?
John Keats

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas de Quincey
19 The literary device used when addressing an absent figure is called:
alliteration

anaphora

apostrophe

metaphor
20 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Thou wert as a lone star"

"Poet of Nature"

"winter's midnight roar"

"Childhood and youth, friendship and love’s first glow"
21 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because of his pamphlet on ______
Libertarianism

Vegetarianism

Catholicism

Atheism
22 Shelley and other Romantic figures like William Hunt and John Keats frequently convened in which area of London?
Hampstead Heath

St. James

Mayfair

Covent Garden
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?
Coleridge

Lord Byron

Wordsworth

Keats
25 Which of the following is not a theme of the poem?
Nature

Grief

Reverence

Loss