La Belle Dame Sans Merci

How could Romanticism be summarised in two words?

• Emotional Excess
• Emotional Rollercoaster
• Femme Fatale
• Love Stories

Who wrote the poem 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'?

• William Wordsworth
• Lucy Brookes
• John Keats
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What type of poem is this?

• A sonnet
• A ballad
• A limerick
• An epic poem

How is the Knight first presented?

• Strong and brave
• Hungry and angry
• Pale and weak
• Energetic and active

How is the ballad made memorable?

• Metaphor
• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Superlative

What technique is "lily on thy brow"?

• Metaphor
• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Superlative

What does the line "lily on thy brow" suggest about the Knight?

• He loves flowers
• He is wearing a Snapchat filter
• He is close to death
• He has just woken up

What structural change happens in stanza 4?

• Nothing.
• We hear the faery's perspective
• We hear the Knight's perspective
• We hear the Belle Dame's perspective

What is foreshadowed in the line "her foot was light / and her eyes were wild"?

• The faery is going to stay for a long time.
• The faery is not going really into the Knight
• The faery needs to buy new shoes
• The fairy is unpredictable and wild

What elusion to sex is presented in stanzas 5 and 6?

• "I made a garland for her head"
• "And bracelets too"
• "I set her on my pacing steed"
• "A faery's song"