English 12 Unit 6: Romanticism

English 12 Unit 6: Poetry

​"The Chimney Sweeper" (Innocence & Experience)

Multiple Choice

What similarities/differences do you see in the tone of both of these poems?

• Naive/hopeful (Innocence); Jaded and pessimistic (Experience)

• Both poems are naive and hopeful

• Jaded and pessimistic (Innocence); Naive/hopeful (Experience)

• Both poems are jaded and pessimistic

Multiple Choice

True or False: The specific words that help to establish the tone in the Innocence poem are: "Be a good boy if all do their duty"

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The specific words that help to establish the tone in the Experience poem are: "Clothes of death"

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The role of religion in Innocence is comfort

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The role of religion in Experience is suffering

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The role of parents in both Innocence and Experience is that they are both neglectful

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

The Romantic elements that can be found within each poem are:

• Nature

• Imagination

• Tone (hopeful, optimistic)

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

True or False: You feel sorrier for the second chimney sweeper, because he has to go to work every day due to his parents thinking everything is fine.

• False

• True

​"Ozymandius"

Multiple Choice

True or False: This poem is a sonnet.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

What are the lines that explain what the scene that the traveler describes looks like?

• "Legs of stone, expression of the statue" (Lines 2 - 5)

• "Pedestal" (Line 10)

• "Lone and level sands" (Line 14)

Multiple Choice

True or False: According to the sculptor, Ozymandias seemed tough/scary.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

How did the sculptor "mock" Ozymandias?

• Actually was cruel

• Thought he was cruel or tough

Multiple Choice

True or False: Irony is used in this poem in the sense that the pedestal tells people to fear Ozymandius but there are no accomplishments.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The theme of this poem is "Power is temporary"

• True

• False

​"She walks in beauty"

Multiple Choice

Which literary device compares the beauty of the speaker's love interest to the night?

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which literary device talks about "smiles that win"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

Which literary device talks about "raven hair"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Multiple Select

What are some descriptions on what the woman physically looks like?

• Contrasting

• Beauty

• Peaceful Face

• Dark Hair

Multiple Choice

True or False: The relationship between the woman's inner self and her appearance are beauty of the outside of her reflects her sweet and pure and beautiful nature inside.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: Perfectly balanced contrasting colors cause the nameless grace the woman possesses.

• False

• True

​"william wordsworth poems"

​"Composed upon westminster bridge"

Multiple Choice

True or False: This poem is a sonnet.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sight the speaker is describing in the poem is a city at sunrise.

• False

• True

Multiple Select

What are three things in the poem that are being personified?

• The city

• Houses

• River

Multiple Select

What items were personified and how?

• City (wearing clothes)

• Houses (sleepy)

• River (going at his own place)

Multiple Choice

True or False: The personification enhanced the poem because it made the poem more lifelike.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The tone of this poem is awestruck.

• False

• True

Multiple Select

Which words best portray the tone of the poem?

• "Calm"

• "Silent"

• "Sleep"

Multiple Choice

True or False: The "mighty heart" that is still in the last line is a city, stating that the people are quiet and asleep.

• False

• True

Multiple Select

In which lines can you find Romantic elements, and what are their inspirations?

• "Ana all that mighty heart is lying still" - nature

• "The city now doth, like a garment, wear / The beauty of the morning; silent, blue" - beauty

Multiple Choice

True or False: The theme of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" is Appreciating nature can bring inner peace, and the line that best exemplifies it is "Never saw, I never felt"

• False

• True

​"The World is Too Much With Us"

Multiple Choice

True or False: This poem is a sonnet

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: When the author says "[t]he world is too much with us", the author might mean to take nature/world for granted and humans overbearing.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The author would rather be Pagan because he believes popular religions don't appreciate nature enough.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The line that best demonstrates the speaker's passion is Line 9, "Great God!"

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The tone of the poem is frustrated, and the words that best portray the tone are "Waste our power / solid boon"

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The theme is that people don't appreciate nature as much as they should.

• True

• False

​"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Multiple Choice

True or False: The speaker is feeling sad in the first line of the poem.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: A cloud might be lonely because it's isolated and far from everyone/everything.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sight the speaker comes upon is thousands of daffodils by a lake near hills.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The daffodils are personified in the sense that they are dancing.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The lasting effect of the sight on the speaker is happy and joyful, and the speaker states that he'll always remember this sight when he's pensive or sad.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The theme of this poem is find pleasure in the little things, and the line that best exemplifies it is "Nature brings joy".

• False

• True

​"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

​Part 1

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner is described as having a grey beard and glittering eye.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The wedding guest initially reacts in a disgusted manner when he first sees the mariner.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The wedding guest stops and listens to the mariner because he is mesmerized by the eye.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: When the mariner starts telling his story, the guest hears the wedding music and starts to get impatient. However, he stays because he is intrigued.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The storm that the mariner and his crew encounters leads them south to a land of ice. The imagery that is used is that there is lots of ice.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: When the crew spots the albatross flying over the ship, they are happy.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The crew sees the albatross as a good omen.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner kills the bird with no explanation as to why he would do this.

• False

• True

​Part 2

Multiple Choice

True or False: The crew is upset at the mariner for shooting the bird because it was a sign of life; land; and good omen, as it brought the wind.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The crew next decides that it was a good thing because the fog cleared after he shot the bird.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: When the crew reaches the Pacific Ocean, the wind stops, and they are hot and thirsty.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The imagery of the sea creatures and southern lights in Lines 123 - 134 contributes to the mood because it's eerie, and seems disgusting and unnatural.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: An albatross is around the mariner's neck. It relates to the cross because the cross hung Jesus, and similarly, the albatross hangs the mariner.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The conditions of the crew are languishing at the point of when Part III takes place.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner bites his arm to drink his blood to alert the ship in the distance. The crew members are happy at first.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: We know that the ship in the distance is supernatural because it is sailing without wind, and it is a skeleton/ghost ship.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The two people/spirits that are on the ghost ship are Death and Life-in-Death (Suffering).

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Life-in-death wins the game of dice, and with it, the mariner's life.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The ghost ship leaves and night falls, and before the crew members die, they curse the mariner with their eyes.

• True

• False

​Part IV

Multiple Choice

True or False: The wedding guest is now afraid of the mariner, because he thinks that the latter is a ghost. However, the mariner reassures him that he is very well, in fact, alive.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The only beings to live with the mariner are slimy sea snakes. He feels disgusted by them.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner is incapable of praying or sleeping.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The narrator suffered under the gaze of the crew for one week.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner's feelings about the sea snakes change when he blesses the snakes.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: After the mariner blesses the snakes, the albatross falls from his neck into the sea.

• False

• True

​Part V

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner is refreshed because he sleeps and drinks.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The strange occurrence that happens with the dead men are that they rise and help the sailboat

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: Spirits are pushing the ships along.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The spirit of the mist and snow is upset with the mariner because he killed the bird. The other spirit states that he needs to suffer more punishment.

• False

• True

​Part VI

Multiple Choice

True or False: The ship is moving fast before the mariner awakens, when it slows.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The spirit crew is staring at the mariner, causing him to feel guilty.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner arrives home.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The dead crew's bodies fell and spirits rose into the sky and waved.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner believes the hermit can forgive his sins.

• False

• True

​Part VII

Multiple Choice

True or False: The pilot was afraid to approach the ship because it looked creepy.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The ship sunk after a while.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner scares the pilot by speaking. The boy laughs and the hermit prays

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The mariner's penance is that he must travel and tell his story.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

True or False: The moral is to love and respect God's creatures and nature.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: The wedding guest is affected by the mariner's story because he is a sadder and wiser man.

• False

• True