To Wordsworth Quizzes

To Wordsworth Quiz

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

ode

sonnet

couplet

sestina
2 Shelley highly regarded Wordsworth for his

interest in Nature

dedication to "Truth and Liberty"

all are correct

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 _____

martyr

slave

traitor

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

cease

strive

fight

continue
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?

"Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve"

"Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shine"

"Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know"

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

memoirs

epics

sonnet sequence
10 Shelley likens Wordsworth to

a lonely ship

a pen

a sword

a lone star
11 Shelley frequently uses language associated with

mourning

celebration

war

new life
12 Shelley's poem was a reaction to Wordsworth's political shift in which poem or collection of poems?

The Excursion

Resolution and Independence

Lyrical Ballads

The Prelude
13 Shelley left England for which country?

Italy

France

America

Spain
14 "Deplore" means

to compliment

to adore

to express disapproval

to uphold
15 Which does NOT describe the tone of the poem?

betrayed

understanding

disappointed

angry
16 Shelley alludes to which famous poem of Wordsworth's?

The world is too much with us

The Prelude

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

I wandered lonely as a cloud
17 Wordworth's poetry frequently explored the themes of _____

Liberty

Childhood

all are correct

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

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

metaphor

alliteration

apostrophe

anaphora
20 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"Thou wert as a lone star"

"Childhood and youth, friendship and love’s first glow"

"winter's midnight roar"

"Poet of Nature"
21 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because of his pamphlet on ______

Libertarianism

Catholicism

Atheism

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

Covent Garden

St. James

Mayfair

Hampstead Heath
23 Shelley's famous work containing the lines "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"

Mont Blanc

The Necessity of Atheism

Prometheus Unbound

A Defence of Poetry
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?

Loss

Nature

Reverence

Grief