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WorksheetsLa Belle Dame Sans Merci
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How could Romanticism be summarised in two words?
a)
Emotional Excess
b)
Emotional Rollercoaster
c)
Femme Fatale
d)
Love Stories
2.
Who wrote the poem 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'?
a)
William Wordsworth
b)
Lucy Brookes
c)
John Keats
d)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.
What type of poem is this?
a)
A sonnet
b)
A ballad
c)
A limerick
d)
An epic poem
4.
How is the Knight first presented?
a)
Strong and brave
b)
Hungry and angry
c)
Pale and weak
d)
Energetic and active
5.
How is the ballad made memorable?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Repetition
c)
Alliteration
d)
Superlative
6.
What technique is "lily on thy brow"?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Repetition
c)
Alliteration
d)
Superlative
7.
What does the line "lily on thy brow" suggest about the Knight?
a)
He loves flowers
b)
He is wearing a Snapchat filter
c)
He is close to death
d)
He has just woken up
8.
What structural change happens in stanza 4?
a)
Nothing.
b)
We hear the faery's perspective
c)
We hear the Knight's perspective
d)
We hear the Belle Dame's perspective
9.
What is foreshadowed in the line "her foot was light / and her eyes were wild"?
a)
The faery is going to stay for a long time.
b)
The faery is not going really into the Knight
c)
The faery needs to buy new shoes
d)
The fairy is unpredictable and wild
10.
What elusion to sex is presented in stanzas 5 and 6?
a)
"I made a garland for her head"
b)
"And bracelets too"
c)
"I set her on my pacing steed"
d)
"A faery's song"
11.
What is the "manna" mentioned in stanza 7?
a)
Food from heaven
b)
Food from hell
c)
Honey
d)
Coca Cola
12.
What technique is used in "she lulled me asleep"?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Simile
d)
Ambiguous language
13.
What does the Knight realise in stanza 10?
a)
He is all along in his grief
b)
He is not the only one deceived by the Belle Dame
c)
His dream has a happy ending
d)
The Belle Dame will return for him
14.
Why does Keats describe the hillside as "cold"?
a)
England is always cold.
b)
He can't think of a better word.
c)
The Knight is emotionally cold, as well as physically cold.
d)
The Belle Dame stole his coat.
15.
Why does Keats use a cyclic structure?
a)
To show that the Belle Dame will always repeat her actions.
b)
To show that the poem lasted a whole year.
c)
To show it is winter.
d)
He couldn't think of a different description.
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