FLE4 Practice Test Romantic Poetry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

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• You get 15 mins to discuss poem answers

Any questions left about this poem?

What is meant with 'marriage-hearse'?

What is meant with 'marriage-hearse'?

What is meant with 'marriage-hearse'?

That even marriage is doomed to end in death and despair.
Marriage has a joyful, celebratory connotation, whereas "hearse" is a carriage transporting a coffin. Placing these words together using an oxymoron, shows us the connection the poet is trying to make between the two.

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Practice Test

FLE 4  - Romantic Poetry

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What is associated with
the Victorian era?

What is associated with
the movement of Romanticism?

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

Reason became more important than imagination in the Romantic Era.

1. True
2. False

The Industrial Revolution sparked the invention of the steam engine

1. True
2. False

Bakers were part of the ...

1. upper class
2. middle class
3. lower class

Children were a symbol of freedom

1. True
2. False

With the arrival of Romanticism, the sonnet grew more popular.

1. True
2. False

In I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, 'dancing daffodils' is an example of:

1. assonance
2. alliteration
3. consonance

From I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud:
" I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils; /
(...)
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
This is an example of:

1. metaphor
2. imagery
3. personification

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud seems cute, free and beautiful at times. What would you say is sad about the poem?

'England in 1819' was written by

1. William Blake
2. William Wordsworth
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. John Keats

In a nutshell, what is the aim of "England in 1819"?

Quote examples of anti-establishment beliefs in England in 1819

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge celebrates the English countryside.

1. True
2. False

Quote 2 examples with assonance and 2 example with alliteration in Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

What's a volta? Explain in as much detail as you can

Where do we find the volta in "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" and what shift does it indicate?

What is explained in the poem London?

What is the mood of London? How do examples of imagery strengthen this?

Explain what an oxymoron is and give an example from the poem London.

Which questions are you left with, to be discussed next class?

Poll:
Looking at the results of this test,
I need to study and/or practise...

a lot still

quite a bit still

a little bit more

not that much anymore

What assignments did you struggle with most?

ASSIGNMENT 1: GENERAL INFO

ASSIGNMENT 2: ASSONANCE, ALLITERATION, SIMILE, PERSONIFICATION, METER + RHYME SCHEME

ASSIGNMENT 3: IMAGERY, MOOD AND TONE

ASSIGNMENT 4: OTHER POETIC DEVICES

ASSIGNMENT 5: VICTORIAN FEATURES + ROMANTICISM FEATURES

Study materials

- Powerpoint ("FLE4 Romantic Period + Victorian Era Study Material"

- romantic poetry padlet 

- poetry stencil + own notes

In Ode to a Nightingale, what poetic device is found in "My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk"

What is typically Romantic about Ode to a Nightingale?