1 Who of the following was NOT a contemporary of John Clare? George Byron John Keats Silvia Plath Percy Shelly 2 What poetry movement does John Clare belong to? Romantic Modernist Gothic None of the above 3 When was John Clare born? Mid eighteenth century Late eighteenth century Early nineteenth century Early eighteenth century 4 Which of the following characteristics of Clare's poetry was typical of the Romantics? Celebrating the natural landscape Rejection of fantastical elements Focus on the English countryside Working-class background 5 Which of the following contemporary phenomena has drawn new attention to John Clare's writing? Worsening wealth inequality Invention of the internet Environmental crisis Migration to cities 6 How did John Clare's social status change over the course of his life? He never achieved success in his life He gradually became well-known over the course of his career His first book made him famous and successful for life His first book was a runaway success, but then he faded into obscurity 7 Which of the following is John Clare NOT known for? Close attention to the natural world Simple yet sophisticated verse Descriptions of vast and awe-inspiring landscapes Melancholy tone 8 What is the meter of "Autumn"? Iambic pentameter (five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) Trochaic hexameter (six pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable) Iambic hexameter (six pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable) Free verse (no fixed meter) 9 What is the rhyme scheme of "Autumn"? No fixed rhyme scheme ABAB AABC AABB 10 What does the absence of a first-person singular suggest in "Autumn"? The poem is written from God's perspective The speaker has to forget himself to experience the sublime The poem is written by a group of people The speaker has forgotten himself and needs the landscape to remember who he is 11 What is "thistledown"? Cloth made from thistles Sheep's wool studded with thistle spines Floating thistle seeds akin to dandelion seeds The flowers of thistles 12 In the context of "Autumn," what is "gossamer"? A delicate fabric Whispering A kind of bird Cobwebs 13 What is the "greensward"? Land designated for farming Fields left empty The manor house Grassy land 14 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza? Mournful Awe-struck Matter-of-fact Celebratory 15 Which line subtly blurs the boundaries between the landscape and the speaker? The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill Whoever looks round sees Eternity there 16 What is the mood of the second stanza? Cheerful Sublime Melancholy None of the above 17 In the context of the second stanza, the line "The fallow fields glitter like water indeed" is an example of what literary device? Juxtaposition Metaphor Parallelism Irony 18 What idea does the second stanza INTRODUCE? The natural world can be awe-inspiring It's worth looking closely at the natural world The human gaze can allow opposites to coexist The autumnal landscape remains touched by heat 19 Which line most emphatically emphasizes the disastrous impacts of the autumn on the landscape? The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed. The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread, The fallow fields glitter like water indeed, 20 Which of the following does not suggest the power of the human gaze? And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run The fallow fields glitter like water indeed And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed Whoever looks round sees Eternity there 21 Which two lines most closely resemble one another in their use of figurative language? Lines 3 and 5 Lines 5 and 7 Lines 3 and 9 Lines 3 and 11 22 Which literary device does NOT appear in line 11, "burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air" Parallel Alliteration Syntactical inversion Metaphor 23 Which of the following contains an example of alliteration? And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. Whoever looks round sees Eternity there. The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; 24 Which of the following best describes the significance of "Eternity" in the final line? A loss of the ordinary world in favor of the sublime The presence of the Christian God A sense of one's own mortality in comparison to the natural world A sense of something bigger than oneself in the ordinary world 25 What is the primary conflict of "Autumn"? Between the speaker and God Between summer's heat and winter's cold Between the harshness of the autumnal landscape and its beauty Between the speaker's desire to find the landscape beautiful and the reality of its ugliness