John Keats: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

In the octave, the speaker writes that he has "traveled in the realms of gold," and seen "many goodly states and kingdoms" where poets pay "fealty to Apollo." Given the content of the rest of the poem, we know that the speaker is referring to his -

• wide reading in the literature of Western civilization.

• many travels to the western islands.

• vast study of our planet.

• acute research on explorers.

• awe at seeing the peak in Darien.

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Keats likens Homer to a -

• conqueror

• scientist

• discoverer

• monarch

In which line does a single word function as an iamb?

• "...And many goodly states and kingdoms seen..."

• "...Round many western islands have been..."

• "...Yet did I never breathe its pure serene..."

• "...Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold..."

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The controlling metaphor for discovery isn the poem is built around a comparison of reading with -

• writing

• traveling

• science

• physics

• medicine

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Written as an Italian sonnet, Keats had to follow the formal organization established by all of the following rules for a sonnet EXCEPT:

• The ideas in the poem must be expressed in 14 lines.

• Each line has to consist of 10 syllables.

• The meter has to be iambic pentamenter.

• The verse is unrhymed.

• The sonnet as to be organized into two parts: the octave and the sestet.

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When the "turn" occurs between the octave and sestet, images of exploration give way to -

• more intensified images of exploration.

• images of discovery.

• questions about the necessity of exploration.

• answers to the questions about exploration suggested in the octave.

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The predominant tones of the poem are:

• adulation and reverence for God's many wonders.

• smugness and self-satisfaction with human accomplishments.

• repugnance and disgust with what the evil mortals enjoy.

• arrogance and contempt for Cortez's lack of accomplishments.

• excitement and awe at the wonders discovered through reading.

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When the speaker refers to Cortez in line 11, he is employing which stylistic device?

• personification

• metonomy

• oxymoron

• allusion

• metaphor

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All of the following words are utilized by Keats to create an intense emotion EXCEPT -

• "swims" (line 10)

• "eagle eyes" (line 11)

• "silent" (line 14)

• "wild surmise" (line 13)

• "deep-brow'd" (line 6)

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The lines "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken" make use of -

• paradox

• irony

• simile

• metonymy

• personification

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