Practice Test Poetic Analysis

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Poetic Analysis practice test

Which issue from te Victorian era can you see in the image?

True/False: Reason became more important than imagination in the Romantic Era.

1. True
2. False

What is the metre in this passage?

1. iambic tetrameter
2. iambic pentameter
3. iambic hexameter
4. iambic heptameter

The Romantic Era saw a new popularity for the sonnet.

1. True
2. False

'Dancing daffodils' is an example of:

1. Metaphor
2. alliteration
3. simile

What literary device is found in the passage?

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. assonance

What does this Inward Eye stand for? Answer in one word.

Who wrote Ozymandias?

1. Percy Shelley
2. William Wordsworth
3. John Keats
4. William Shakespeare

Ozymandias: The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

Who does the hand belong to?

1. The poet
2. The artist
3. The king of kings

Which of the following is not mocked in My Mistress' eyes?

1. hair
2. breath
3. humour
4. voice

Which is not a regular theme of a sonnet?

1. beauty
2. time
3. youth
4. love

In the 'Lesson', what literary device is NOT found in this passage?

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. enjambment
4. assonance

Which literary device can you see in the passage?

In Ode to a Nightingale, the poet is:

1. happy
2. sad

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,

What is the 'object' of this passage?