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WorksheetsLondon William Blake
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Which of the following suggest that the people are trapped not just physically, but also mentally?
I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)
"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)
"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)
"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16) "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)
Which of the following is an example of the poet's use of oxymoron?
I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)
"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)
"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)
"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)
Which of the following techniques does the poet use to emphasise the feeling of bleakness/despair that affects everyone and from which there seems to be no escape?
Oxymoron
Reference to the French Revolution
Repetition
Contrast
Which of the following suggests that to the speaker of the poem, the future brings nothing but death and decay?
"Every black'ning church appals,/And the hapless soldier's sigh" ( lines 10-11)
"How the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the new-born infant's tear" (Lines 14-15)
"marriage hearse" (Line 16)
"the mind-forged manacles I hear" (Line 8)
The use of negative words such as weakness, woe, cry and fear The use of negative words such as weakness, woe, cry and fear
Which of the following could be used to support the claim that " Money is spent on church buildings while children live in poverty, forced to clean chimneys - the soot from which blackens the church walls. To Blake, this makes a mockery of the love and care that should characterise the Christian religion"?
"And the hapless soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down palace walls" ( lines 11-12)
"How the youthful harlot's curse/Blasts the new-born infant's tear" (Lines 14-15)
"In every cry of every man,'In every infant's cry of fear (Lines 5-6)
"the mind-forged manacles I hear" (Line 8)
"How the Chimney-sweeper's cry / Every blackening church appalls" (Lines 9-11)
Which of the following might be ideas that one can infer from the poem?
Blake sees the rapid urbanisation in Britain at the time as a dangerous force
The speaker presents a London where children are no longer free to enjoy childhood but are forced to work in dangerous conditions
The poem is pessimistic. It is without hope for the future
All of the above
What does the quote "chartered street [...] chartered Thames" from London show?
Blake has no idea where he is going
Even a river that is often a symbol of freedom is owned
Man has become a monster
They are good at making maps
What does the speaker hear the harlot uttering?
A curse
A cry
A laugh
Nothing at all
