3rd Grade

Poetry
1 - The Neoclassical period beginning, with the death of _______ in 1700 and
lasting until the French Revolution in 1789 represents a-flourishing of British
poetry characterized by sophistication and polish. ( John Dryden -
Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson )
2 - This period, so bound aesthetically to the heroic couplet and, though unfairly,
to a change of emotional blandness, is a particularly high point in the literature of
_________. ( America - England - French )
3 - It is a fact that the ______ century was dominated by an aesthetic preference,
for the rhymed, iambic couplet, but it was also an age characterized by numerous
talented poets, and a few of genius, who wrung from that couplet an array of
tones. ( 17th - 19th - 18th )
4 - The ______ century closed with a Protestant monarchy, two newly established
political parties maneuvering for power in the government, and a certain degree of
religious freedom. ( 17th - 19th - 18th )
5 - The two political parties that were formed were the Whigs and the _______.
( Northern Democratic - Old liberal - Tories )
6 - The _____ party supported the King and the Established Church; the Tories
consisted mainly of landed gentry and clergy who opposed Dissenters, such as
the Puritans, and the rising merchant class.
( Northern Democratic - Old liberal - Tory )
7 - The ______ party was less easily defined. Nobles opposed to the power of the
monarchy joined with Dissenters and merchants. ( Whig - Old liberal - Tory )
8 - The period comes to a close with the beginning of the _______ Revolution in
1789. ( industrial - Demographic - French )
9 - Unquestionably, the major figures of the first half of the century are Swift and
_____. ( Shakespeare - Samuel - Pope )
10 - When compared with Swift and Pope, these poets, especially _______ and
Collins, seem to have withdrawn from the world of people and events: Almost all
of Gray's poems dwell upon solitary subjects brooding on mysterious sorrows.
( Gray - Samuel - Dryden )
11 - _________ especially adhered to the classicism of Pope, and Charles
Churchill was one of the more strident social critics in British literary history.
( Gray - Samuel Johnson - Dryden )

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12 - The heroic couplet (so called because early epics in English were usually
written in iambic ________) can generally be described as a pair of iambic
_______ lines that rhyme. ( tetrameter - dimeter - pentrameter )
13 - The acknowledged master is ________, who refined the couplet to a highly
expressive tool. ( Shakespeare - Samuel - Pope )
14 - Certainly Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and Goldsmith's
"_________" are great poems in the form, George Crabbe also worked expertly
with the couplet, perhaps extending its tonal range beyond that of Pope.
( The Citizen of the World - The Hermit - The Deserted Village )
15 - Chatterton, Burns, and ______, are not even 18th century poets in the sense
that Pope and Johnson are. ( Blake - Shakespeare - Dryden )
16 - It was a bridge that would be Crossed but two years after Bums' death, with
the publication in 1798 of _______ by Wordsworth arid Coleridge.
( The Thorn - The False Alarm - Lyrical Ballads )
17 - 18th century poets believed firmly in the classical idea that _______ is an
imitation of nature, having as its ends in instruction and delight.
( novel - drama - poetry )
18 - Poets believed that instruction was the more important end of poetry, but they
realized that poetry could best instruct by delighting. ( True - False )
19 - The eighteenth century was the golden age of _______.
( Iron - Satire - Romance )
20 - The aim of satire is to "heal with Morals what it hurts with Wit."( True - False )
21 - As a satirist, ______ uses in his poem "A Description of City Shower" the old
form of pastoral poetry with a radical change in the form. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
22 - Swift mixes between satire and _______ to describe a common place event"
a rain shower which took place in the city of London". ( Parody - Iron - Romance )
23 - Swift composes 63 lines and followed the most common rhyme scheme in the
age of reason 18th century which was known as ________ (every two lines have
the same rhyme). ( Epic - stanza - heroic couplets )
24 - He used iambic _______ in the lines. ( tetrameter - dimeter - pentameter )
25 - For Swift and all 18th century poets, poetry had a primary purpose which was
providing moral instruction. They used elevated language and revival of classical
Roman and _______ models of writing. ( French - German - Greek )
26 - Another important concern in the poem was the idea of reality and
appearance. _______ was the center of commerce and culture.
( France - Greece - London )
27 - The reality of London was contrasted with its appearance. ( True - False )

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28 - _______ depended on a reference to classical allusion (referring to Roman or
Greek or Legendary figures) like the "pensive cat" and the allusion to pastoral
Poetry of Vergil. His tone is ironic and his language is elevated and rich in
description. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
29 - Swift introduces a ______ analysis of human behavior on a rainy day in the
city of London. ( Ironical - romantical - satirical )
30 - The first part of the poem introduces us to the city before a shower. ( True -
False )
31 - The first gradual description of the city the vulgar image of the sink, images of
pain, the image of depression and dullness associated with the dull man who
saunters in a coffeehouse foreshadows a gloomy atmosphere which extends to
the ______ part of the poem. ( Third - fourth - second )
32 - The ______ chooses the least attractive and probably the most offensive
metaphor to describe the dark cloud which is overloaded with rain.
( writer - Narrator - persona )
33 - Swift gives us an unromanticized, naturalistic vision of the working and lower
classes in the city, as opposed to the ________ images of the rural folk
characteristic of the pastoral genre. ( Comedian - ironical -, romanticized )
34 - Swift attacks the two fighting parties whose concern for appearances,
ironically speaking, seems to be more serious than their disputes which have
separated them. ( Flower - water - war )
35 - ______'s indignation at moral corruption which has become a characteristic of
human behavior is very obvious through the poem. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
36 - Swift’s ______ reference to the city as “devoted” is very provocative.
( Comedian - ironical -, romanticized )
37 - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed is a ______ poem written by Swift
during the 18th century. ( Lyrical - epic - satiric )
38 - It followed the same rhyme (heroic couplets) and the same meter (Iambic
________). ( tetrameter - dimeter - pentameter )
39 - The language was so _____ which was used to describe the physical
appearance of a prostitute, named Corinna. ( Nice - rich - ugly )
40 – " A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed " is broken into _____ stanzas.
( Two - four - three )
41 - The ______ stanza describes this woman, but it focuses mainly on her
getting ready for bed, going to sleep and then having a dream.
( first - second - third )
42 - Her name is Corinna, she is a ______ and she is quite unhappy with her life.
( dancer - singer - prostitute )
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43 – The poem describes Corinna ready for bed and manages to fall asleep.
( True - False )
45 - The second and third stanza is about her waking up to her terrible life once
more. A Disaster happened. She is now without any Make-up as a very ugly
creature. ( True - False )
46 - The poem not only attacks women but also attacks men who only admire
women's physical appearance and don't look for the reality. ( True - False )
47 - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed is linked to _____ other poems
talking about the same theme. ( Two - four - three )
48 - The most famous one was called "__________".
( The Fable of the Bees - Nampy-Pamby - The Lady's Dressing Room )
49 - In old traditional ______ poetry, especially Cavalier poetry there was a deep
praise for women's charm. ( Satiric - romantic - lyric )
50 - ______ depicts Corinna as an artificial model and uses a sublime language at
the beginning of the poem. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
51 - _________ was a master of satire. ( Blake - Swift - Alexander Pope )
52 - In Epistle to a Lady", he attacks women for their trivial and foolish behavior,
especially the _________ class. ( Low - aristocratic - middle )
53 - Although he attacks and criticizes women, we can't consider _____ as a
misogynist because he mentions the character of the ideal woman of the middle
class, after he points out the foolish of aristocratic women. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
54 – "Epistle to a Lady" is an example of a painting style of a Caricaturist who is
taking his readers through a tour in a gallery. ( True - False )
55 - ____________ is along poem of 292lines written in heroic couplets (common
rhyme in 18th century). ( The Fable of the Bees - A Beautiful Young Nymph
Going to Bed - Epistle to a Lady )
56 - ________ introduces the idea of the painting metaphor which is recurrent in
his poetry. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
57 - He depends on visual imagery and some technical terms used in painting.
( True - False )
58 - _________, uses paradox through the heart of the poem. He uses rhetorical
ways to show the antithesis of ideas. He shows that paradox is part of human life
and an ultimate virtue of females. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
59 - ____________'s poem "An Epistle to a Lady" clearly clarifies the qualities of
an ideal woman. These qualities are asserted through the contrast of portraits of
women who are in some way immoral or otherwise not ideal.
( Blake - Swift - Alexander Pope )

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60 - The _________ of Pope's poem is related to the idea of ideal beauty both in
appearance and essence of females represented in the virtuous character of
Martha Blount. ( subject - image - theme )
61 - Pope's "________" is set within the tradition of literature directed at teaching
women how to be proper, polite young women. ( The Fable of the Bees
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed - Epistle to a Lady )
62 - Perhaps the most interesting part of ______'s "An Epistle to a Lady" is that
______ celebrates a middle class woman. _______ finds value in the Lady,
Martha Blount, because she is not an aristocrat, she has a wonderful sense of
humor and wit. ( Blake - Swift - Pope )
63- "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet" is a poetic ______ that celebrates the life,
while mourning the death, of Robert Levet a famous physician who for many years
lived in Samuel Johnson's London house and treated the local poor, seldom
asking a fee for his services. ( satire - epic - elegy )
64 - Johnson's poem is divided into ______ stanzas and each stanza includes 4
lines. ( Seven - eight - nine )
65 - The meter is iambic ______; the rhyme scheme is abab.
( tetrameter - dimeter - pentrameter )
66 - Each stanza is a grammatically self-contained unit that makes a statement
not only about Levet and his life in particular and about humanity and the human
condition in general. ( True - False )
67 - _______ employs a kind of simple diction to reflect a general statement about
the human condition in life which is full of suffering, and then uses concrete
imagery that functions to show Levet's accomplishments.
( Blake - Pope - Johnson )
68 - "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet" is traditional _______ century poem as it
indicates Johnson's commitment to order, form, and tradition that are
characteristics of the neoclassical age. ( 17th - 18th - 19th )
69 - "He speaks of life and death, of human cares and anguish, of human virtues:,
and accomplishments, of faith, duty, and compassion, and of love.( True - False )
70 - ________ never forgets Levet through the poem but he uses him as a symbol
for virtuous people at all ages ( Blake - Pope - Johnson )
71 - _______ saw spiritual truth in Levet. What Johnson saw in the parable of
Levet's life was the possibility of God's mercy and the hope of heaven.
( Blake - Pope - Johnson )
72 - Throughout most of his life, Johnson was known for his joyful and happiness.
( True - False )

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73 - In spite of his strong ________ beliefs, Johnson suffered from religious
doubts, not so much about the existence of God, but doubts about his own
worthiness as a beneficiary of God's mercy. ( Jewish - Islamic - Christian )
74 - To get the elegy's full effect, one should be aware of the necessity of fully
realizing the personification; a form of imagery in __________-century poetry;
( Seventeenth - eighteenth - nineteenth )
75 - The poem is more than a lament of the passing of a friend: it is a comment on
the whole human situation. ( True - False )
76 - Like so much of ________'s writing, this poem is a sharp protest against the
inhumanity of man to man ( Blake - Pope - Johnson )
77 - _______'s "Elegy' Written in a Country Churchyard" is one of the most
influential poems in eighteenth-century English literature.
( Gray - Pope - Johnson )
78 - The poem can best be understood in relation to two poetic traditions common
in the first half of the _______ century. ( Seventeenth - eighteenth - nineteenth )
79 - An ______ is a sustained and formal poem reflecting the poet's meditations
on death. ( Ironic - satire - elegy )
80 - Gray wrote his elegy in what came to be called the "elegiac stanza," or the
iambic _________ quatrain rhyming abab. ( tetrameter - dimeter - pentameter )
81 – According to the "_______" tradition, the poet embodies his metaphysical or
philosophical musings in the countryside or in nature (here it is related to a
"graveyard," ( Nature - Countryside - landscape )
82 - In the churchyard, The ______ considers the deaths of poor men and rich
men alike, lamenting that the poor die before they can make a mark on the world.
( Poet - Narrator - speaker )
83 - ______ achieves the dignified, grave, and stately tone of his poem through a
number of poetic techniques. (Gray - Pope - Johnson)
84 - First, the heroic quatrain-four lines of iambic ________ rhyming abab and
sometimes called the "____ stanza," (elegiac-lyric-satiric)
85 - _______--the use of words that by their sound suggest it their meanings—
quietly sets the background in the country setting.
( Alliteration - Onomatopoeia - Striking phrases )
86 - _______, the repetition of identical consonant sounds, is used to link words
that the poet wants the reader to associate closely
( Alliteration - Onomatopoeia - parallel structure )
87 - Another device Gray uses to heighten and emphasize emotional impact is
_______. (Creating balance the first half of a line with the second half).
( Alliteration - Onomatopoeia - parallel structure )
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88 - ______ uses striking phrases that express much in a few words.
( Gray - Pope - Johnson )
89 - Class and economic standing are also central themes in the "_______."
( Ode on the Spring. - Elegy - The Bard )
90 - Gray's speaker also reflects on the limitations imposed on the poor and lower
classes, contending that among the men buried in the cemetery there could have
been a great poet or politician, if only he had been provided the opportunity. (
True - False )
91 - Alienation is another theme in the "_____."
( Ode on the Spring. - Elegy - The Bard )
92 - As in many of his earlier poems, _______ is caught between the city and
country worlds, the speaker in the "Elegy" is on a voyage of self-discovery as he
meditates on his own inevitable death and mourns his own unrealized potential.
( Gray - Pope - Johnson )
93 - “Ode to Evening,” is one of the most famous poems of ____.
( Gray - Samuel Johnson - William Collins )
94 - It is a beautiful poem of _______ lines, addressed to a goddess figure
representing evening. ( Fifty - fifty-one - fifty-two )
95 – In Ode to Evening, the sun is depicted as a male figure who withdraws into
his tent, making way for night. ( True - False )
96 - The poem has ______ parts: the opening salutation to Eve; the center, a plea
for guidance from Eve, and a grand finale with a return to a universal side
referring to the effect of Eve on natural surrounding ( Two - three - four )
97 - The most striking point in the poem is that _____used a prayful and
supplicating mood when he begged Evening” “Now teach me”. ( Blake - Gray -
Collins )
98 - _________ chose to make his “ode to Evening” a Horation ode, as he takes a
serious tone in describing various evenings throughout each season.
( Gray - Samuel Johnson - William Collins )
99 - “_______,”, is addressed to a goddess figure representing the time of day in
the title. William Collins further stresses a female identity in his appellation “calm
votaress.” With this feminine form, he designates a nun, or one who vows to follow
the religious life. ( Ode to Evening - Elegy - Ode on the Spring )
100 - This poem is considered a Horation Ode rather than a pastoral one although
it contains rural imagery and conventions of pastoral poetry. ( True - False )
101 - As "Ode to Evening" is written in imitation of the Roman poet _______, the
verse is unrhymed, with a metrical pattern developing as follows: alternating sets

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of two iambic pentameter lines and two shorter lines of iambic trimeter.
( Virgil - Ovid - Horace )
102 - Collins made his poem as an urbane sublime one by mixing _____ and
neoclassical traditions. ( Classical - parody - Romantic )
103 - He uses the unrhymed form and longer and shorter lines to make the whole
poem as a complete stanza. This is a new innovation that looked like the _______
Movement. ( Classical - neoclassical - Romantic )
104 - •Collins uses conventional _______ techniques such as nature imagery
which depicts how darkness of Eve begins to take over the atmosphere.
( Classical - neoclassical - Romantic )
105 - He also employs ________ of Eve as modest, chaste and meek. The tone
of the poem is a quiet one that copies with the peace of nature.
( Image - metaphor - personification )
106 - "The Chimney Sweeper," a poem of six quatrains, appeared in Songs of
Innocence in ______. It exposes the appalling conditions of the boys at his time.
( 1788 - 1789 - 1790 )
107 - In the _____ stanza, the sweeper recounts how he came to this way of life.
His mother—always in Blake's work the warm, nurturing parent—having died, he
was sold as an apprentice by his father, the stem figure of authority.
( First - second - third )
108 - The second stanza introduces_____, who comes to join the workers and is
initiated into his new life by a haircut. (Oliver Twist- Tom Dacre-David
Copperfield )
109 - The Chimney Sweeper is built around a series of powerful, closely
related______. The first, introduced in the second line, is that of bondage and
freedom (contrasts – comparisons-analogies)
110 - A second group of contrasts juxtapose in the Chimney Sweeper work and
play, sorrow and joy, tears and laughter. ( True - False )
111 - The final antithesis in the Chimney Sweeper is that between death and life,
coldness and warmth, darkness and light. ( True - False )
112 - ______ makes a passionate indictment of a society that exploits the weak
and at the same time hypocritically uses moral platitudes about duty and
goodness to further its selfish interests. ( Gray - Pope - Blake )
113 - Moreover, the ______ is made aware of his own complicity in social evil
when the sweeper addresses him directly with the words "your chimneys I
sweep." ( Poet - Narrator - reader )
114 - ______ contrasts the two states of being. Usually the condition of childhood,
innocence is that state in which evil is not known; it is characterized by joy and
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love is normally associated with the peaceful harmony of a pastoral background in
the countryside. ( Gray - Pope - Blake )
115 – Experience for William Blake, on the other hand, brings awareness of evil; it
is accompanied by feelings of outrage and hatred; and it finds its appropriate
setting in the city. ( True - False )
116 - _______" is a sixteen-line poem composed of four stanzas of alternatively
rhyming short lines. ( Ode to Evening - London - Ode on the Spring )
117 - _______ focuses his attention on the condition of London, England, the
capital not only of the country but also of "culture," yet, as the four stanzas make
abundantly clear, Blake does not share the opinion that this city sets a positive
example. ( Gray - Pope - Blake )
118 - Each stanza of "_______" points out ways in which the British monarchy
and English laws cause human suffering.
( Ode to Evening - London - Ode on the Spring )
119 - We see in his poem "_______" how the failures of the church and state are
made evident through the misery that they cause.
( Ode to Evening - London - Ode on the Spring )
120 - London is written in the ____ person narrator who mentions his observations
as he walks through the streets of London. ( Third - second - first )
121 - Because "_______" is a "Song of Experience," it is set in contrast to the
images that Blake presented in the first half of the work: "Songs of Innocence,"
poems ( Ode to Evening - London - Ode on the Spring )
122 - the word "charter'd," not only means "given liberty," but also refers to
ownership and landholding. This is _____ contrasts. ( Parody - ironic - satiric )
123 - Finally, ______ uses appeals to the senses to heighten the poem's impact.
By having the narrator walk through this sordid scene arid report what is heard
and seen, Blake forces the reader into an immediate confrontation with the human
suffering the poet sees all around him. ( Gray - Pope - Blake )
124 - ______ viewed himself as a prophet whose task it was to shake people out
of their complacent acceptance of their fallen circumstances.
( Gray - Pope - Blake )
125 - In _______'s poem "It Is a Beauteous Evening" the poet is watching the sun
set over the ocean; the evening is beautiful and calm, inspiring a mood of religious
awe. ( William Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
126 - The reader first realizes that the ______ is not alone as he addresses a
young girl, who is walking by his side. ( Persona – poet-narrator )
127 - The most striking structural features of the sonnet are the _____ sudden
shifts. ( Two - three - four )
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128 - The first shift starts in Line _____ with an imperative "Listen!" Shifting from
vision to sound and motion, the tranquil scene is paradoxically and unexpectedly
loud with "A sound like thunder." (5-6-7)
129 - The poem suddenly shifts again in line ____, when the poet addresses the
companion of his walk: "Dear Child! Dear Girl!". This may explain the shift from
sensory description of the scene to a biblical language used metaphorically to
characterize the girl. (5-9-7)
130 - The _____ follows structure of the Italian Petrarchan ______. The first eight
lines, or octave, build a strong unit of thought and feeling. With the final six lines,
or sestet the thought turns in a way that qualifies the octave
( Sonnet - Ballad - Ode )
131 - It is characteristic of _______'s poetry to describe nature in a way that
evokes some spirit within natural aspects. Children are much closer to this spirit
than adults. ( Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
132 - "Surprised by Joy" is a short lyric written in the form of a _______ about a
person who continues to grieve over the death of a loved one.
( Sonnet - Ballad - Ode )
133 - ________ refers to his daughter Catherine, who died in June of 1812.
( William Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
134 - The poem opens with the poet describing a vivid, past experience: He had a
joyful thought "Joy" is an important word to _______ and can suggest not only a
happy feeling but also a life-giving, mind-altering, deeply emotional and profound
sense of harmony and well-being. ( Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
135 - After being surprised by joy, the poet turned with impatience to share his
new and highly emotional state of mind. He recalls a person who had often stood
beside him in the past as his daughter must have done. ( True - False )
136 - However, when he turned joyfully to his _______, he realized she was not
there to share his emotion because she was dead. ( mother - wife - daughter )
137 - _________" is a fourteen-line Italian sonnet, though Wordsworth somewhat
modifies its traditional form. ( Ode to Evening - London - Surprise by Joy )
138 - __________'s rhyme scheme is not as rigid as usual: In a strict Italian
sonnet, lines 3 and 4 would rhyme with lines 6 and 7, and in this poem they do
not. ( Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
139 - The tone of this poem is complex, a mixture of emotion and restraint. The
poem communicates the anguish _______ felt in the past and feels in the present.
( Wordsworth - Gray - Blake )
140 - “________” is a lyric poem written in blank verse paragraphs of varying
lengths. ( The Eolian Harp - London - Surprise by Joy )
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141 - The Eolian harp was commonly used by poets in the ______ period as a
metaphor for the creative process. ( classical - neoclassical - Romantic )
142 - “________” is one of Coleridge’s first achievements in a new lyric form he
developed, which is known as the conversation poem, or greater Romantic Lyric.
( The Eolian Harp - London - Surprise by Joy )
143 - ______ believed that any separation between subject and object, the
knower and the known, was ultimately false ( Wordsworth - Coleridge - Blake )
144 - Throughout Coleridge’s life, as he sought to create an organic philosophy to
replace the prevailing mechanistic world view, he was acutely aware of the
tension between this dynamic, quasi-mystical philosophy and ______ Christian
belief. ( Catholic - Protestant - Orthodox )
145 - “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” is a moderately long (seventy-six lines)
poem divided into _____ verse paragraphs. ( Two - three - four )
146 - “________” is written in blank verse; its verse paragraphs informally divide
the speaker’s thought processes into three sections of approximately equal length.
( The Eolian Harp - London - This Like Tree Bower My Prison )
147 - The progression is ______ and seems at first to follow the process of
association, not the rules of logic. ( Ironic - Romantic - dramatic )
148 - The speaker begins by expressing irritation, then feels sympathy for his
friend Lamb, then is both happy that he is enjoying his own situation and hopeful
that Lamb can feel what he feels. ( True - False )
149 - Romantic poets such as ______ often protested that the abstractions of
earlier times. ( Wordsworth - Coleridge - Blake )
150 - _______ is interested in the effects of a person’s real experiences of nature.
( Wordsworth - Coleridge - Blake )
151 - "Frost at Midnight," is a seventy-four-line "_______" poem, written in the
blank verse. The poem consists of paragraphs of varying lengths.
( Lyric - romantic - conversation )
152 - The poem displays _______'s skill at linking between opposites in order to
achieve unity. The frost is linked with the fire; the beauteous freedom of nature
with the noise of the city. (Wordsworth - Coleridge - Blake )
153 - In this poem, ______ sits with his child who is sleeping beside him in the
cottage in the village while frost is falling outside.
(Wordsworth - Coleridge - Blake )
154 - "_________," the third poem in this chronological trilogy, is a seventy-four-
line "conversation" poem, written in the blank verse paragraphs of varying lengths.
( The Eolian Harp - Frost at Midnight - This Like Tree Bower My Prison )

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155 - The poem is a description of the poet's sense of solitude and his awareness
of the comfort to be gained by being close to nature, a theme observed in these
earlier poems. ( True - False )
156 - The artistic tension created by this series of antithetical images creates for
"_______" a place comparable to that earned by "This Lime-Tree Bower My
Prison." ( The Eolian Harp - Frost at Midnight - This Like Tree Bower My Prison )
157 -The_____ is addressed to Coleridge's wife, Sara.
( The Eolian Harp - Frost at Midnight - This Like Tree Bower My Prison )
158 - "_______" is a poem of thirty-two lines expressing the loss of ecstatic poetic
creativity in response to the loss of a beloved woman's affections.
( The Eolian Harp - Frost at Midnight - When the Lamp is Shattered )
159 - When the Lamp Is shattered" is a delicate and melancholy lyric poem
consisting of _____ stanzas, each with eight lines of alternating end rhymes.
( Two - three - four )
160 - The poem's metrical system wavers between iambic tetrameter and iambic
_____, both with many variations. ( Trimeter - pentameter - dimeter )
161 - Cooperating with his complex sound effects is a series of metaphors and
similes that are at the heart of the poem. ( True - False )
162 - "_________" is about the loss of ecstatic poetic creativity in response to a
failure in love. ( The Eolian Harp - Frost at Midnight - When the Lamp is
Shattered )
163 – Shelley's poem deals with a theme that is _______ in its literal sense, that
life is changed for the worst when love is gone, describing the loss of love (ironic -
dramatic - romantic )
164 - In the ______ "When I Have Fears," John Keats gives expression to his fear
that his young life may be cut off before he has a chance to experience the love of
a woman and to develop and complete his calling as a poet.
( Sonnet - Ballad - Ode )
165 - _____'s studied reading of William Shakespeare, especially of the songs
and sonnets, inspired him to pursue the perfection of his own poetic skills, ( Keats
- Blake - Wordsworth )
166 - This was his first but impressively successful attempt at a _______ sonnet
with its four divisions of three quatrains, each with a rhyme scheme of its own and
a rhymed concluding couplet. ( Italian - Coleridge's - Shakespearean )
167 - The three quatrains of this ______ are perfectly parallel, shaped as they are
by their rhetorical and grammatical structure. ( Sonnet - Ballad - Ode )
168 – "When I have Fears" is not only about the beauty and mystery of nature; it
also discusses human beauty and love. ( True - False )
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169 - The theme of human mortality runs strong in poetry, especially in the poetry
of the _______. ( Comedies - epics - romantics )
170 – Keats' ______ poignantly gives expression to a very personal fear of his
own early death, which would forever doom to oblivion his human longings and
artistic ambitions. ( Sonnet - Ballad - Ode )
171 - In brief, Keats talks about his fears when he gets old and loses the ability to
write poetry ( True - False )

Test 1
Questions and Answers
 1. Who wrote: "Songs of Innocence," and "Songs of Experience,"

A. Mary Wollstonecraft
B. Lord Byron
C. William Blake

 2. Who wrote "It’s a Beauteous Evening," "The Lucy Poems," and "Surprised
by Joy?"

A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 3. Who wrote "Kubla Khan," "Eolian Harp," "” and " Frost at Midnight?"
A. William Blake
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats

4-Who wrote "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "On First Looking ito Chapman’s
Homer," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. William Blake

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 5. Who said, "A poem is the expression of "negative capability, that is when
man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
irritable reaching after fact and reason?""

A. Lord Byron
B. William Blake
C. John Keats

 6. Who said, "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the
happiest and best minds?"

A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7-Who said, "The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings... recollection in

tranquility?"
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8-What is a popular four-line verse form using alternating rhyme associated

with fold songs/hymn?
A. Heroic couplet
B. Ballad
C. Sonnet

9. What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?

A. Platonism
B. Mythic pattern
C. Blank verse

 10. What is a pause usually in the middle of a line of verse indicated by a

pause in sense?

A. Enjambment
B. Gothicism
C. Caesura
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 11-What is a source of intelligent principles, for the Romantic, Wordsworth, a
nurturing mother?
A. Nature
B. Caesura
C. Primitivism

 12. What is a lyrical poem in an elevated style on a serious subject?

A. Trochaic meter
B. Ballad
C. Ode

 13. What is a movement in art and literature occurring in England in the early
19th century in which the values of imagination, intuition, self-expression,
emotion, and non-conformity supersede Neo-classical values of reason, order,
objectivity, and rules?

A. Romanticism
B. Gothicism
C. Orientalism

14-Who was the nature poet?

A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

15. Which of the following did the Romantic poets value?

Industrialization -Reason - City -Nature
16. Romantics showed more __________ than the previous eras.
Spirituality - emotion - loyalty- love

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 Test 2
1- The primary purpose of art, according to neoclassical literary theory, was to
provide moral instruction (True-False)

2- Prophecies and oracles often play important, roles in both classical epics and
tragedies, and here Swift provides with a source of inspiration (True-False)
3- Swift’s Poem is a Mock Pastoral one (True-False)

4- Swift's London, like any great city, was a place of order and beauty. (True-
False)
5- 19th century poetry was marked by satire and criticism (True-False)

Test 3

1. Samuel Johnson believed firmly in the classical idea that poetry is an imitation
of nature, having as its ends instruction and delight. (true-false)
2. The nature that the 18th century poet imitates, was ideal nature. (True-False)
3. By imitating general nature, the poet instructs and delights the audience. (true-
False)
4. Ode to Evening is an example of the Urban Sublime (True-False)

Ode to Evening"

1.Test 4 Throughout most of the poem, Collins admits Eve’s authority in the
universe combining pastoral imagery with classical allusions. (True-False)
2.This poem is considered a _____ Ode rather than a pastoral one although it
contains rural imagery and conventions of pastoral poetry. (Ovid-Horation-
Humorous)
3."When I have fears," "When I behold," "And when I feel." It is a characteristic
Petrarchan sonnet fashion. (True-False)
4.Neoclassical poets had a deep respect to Greek and Roman classical poetry
and they viewed Greek and Roman poets as the old masters of poetic writing.
(True-False)
5.In "An Epistle to a Lady", Pope changes this characteristic trait of ____ Epistles
and dedicates his poem to a woman of the middle class (Ovid-Horation-
Humorous)

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6.In old traditional lyric poetry, especially Cavalier poetry there was a deep praise
for women's charm. (True-False)

Test 4

1) In the first stanza of the Chimney Sweeper, Blake uses alliteration to highlight:

A: The youth of the speaker

B: The sad situation typical of chimney sweeps

C: The poverty of a typical chimney sweep

D: All of the above

2) The poem’s main tension comes from

A The natural world of children
p and fields and the dirty, sooty world of the
city
B: The painful world of human beings and the heavenly world of God and
the angels
C: The innocence of the boy chimney sweeps and the financial and social
circumstances that create their misery

3-The Chimney Sweeper is written in “Songs of ______”

(Innocence-Experience)

4-"London" is included in the "Songs of Experience".

(True-False)

5-In the poem "______" points out ways in which the British monarchy and
English laws cause human suffering.

(Lamb-Chimney Sweeper-London)

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 4- "London" represents the antithesis to the world Blake showed readers in
"Songs of Innocence";

(True-False)

5-Nowhere in the poem does Blake include a reference to the natural world
except to the River Thames

(True-False)

6-Thus "London" depends for its impact on ironic contrasts.

(True-False)

7. The sonnet “It’s a Beauteous Evening” follows structure of the Italian

_______sonnet.

(Shakespearean-Petrarchan-Spenserian)

8.For the structure of the sonnet, the romantics in general depended on the
structure of the traditional (Italian) sonnet

(True-False)

Test 5

9.Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” shoes that a perfect combination of "dark
and bright" is the secret of his subject's beauty.

(True-False)

. Which one of the following is one of Coleridge's conversation poems?

The Eolian Harp

The Day Watcher

Summer's Dusk

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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10-The poem displays _____'s skill at juxtaposing opposites in order to
achieve unity.

(Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley)

11 Coleridge had already developed conversation poems that possess a

circular structure. Coleridge believed that the structure of a poem should
reflect the structure of existence

(True-False)

12- The dominant image is that of the_____, whose spontaneous music feeds
the poet's loftier speculations

(This Lime Tree- eolian harp-Frost at Midnight)

13- Jubilate Agno is a Magnificat, a song of praise by all of creation to glorify

God

(True-False)

14- Whereas the neoclassicists had valued reason and logic, Wordsworth
declared that the origin of poetry lay in the feelings of the poet

(True-False)

15-' Wordsworth's emphasis on subjectivity, the feelings and emotions of the

poet as he contemplates his subject, became one of the hallmarks of English
_____

(Neoclassicism-Romanticism-Victorianism)

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