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Poetry Anthology - The Prelude

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who wrote The Prelude?
a)
William Wordsworth
b)
Dorothy Wordsworth
c)
Percy Shelley
d)
Mary Shelley
2.

William Wordsworth was born in...

a)

the English Lake District

b)

London

c)

Cambridge

d)

Grasmere

3.
Which movement did the poet of The Prelude belong to?
a)
Romantics
b)
Post-modernists
c)
Revivalists
d)
Metaphysical poets
4.

'The Prelude' is ....

a)

fictional

b)

biographical

c)

autobiographical

5.
What does The Prelude show about the poet?
a)
His spiritual growth
b)
His loss of innocence
c)
His hatred of nature
d)
His love for his wife
6.

Complete the line from 'The Prelude': "happy time – a time of _______"

a)

happiness

b)

rapture

c)

excitement

d)

laughter

7.

Complete the line from 'The Prelude': "We hiss’d along the polish’d ________.’

a)

land

b)

woods

c)

ice

d)

path

8.

Complete the line from 'The Prelude': "The _________ sky of evening died away."

a)

night

b)

evening

c)

red

d)

orange

9.

We are studying Excerpts of 'The Prelude', meaning it is a section of the whole poem 'The Prelude' which is classed as an....

a)

Ode

b)

Sonnet

c)

Epic poem

d)

Ballad

10.

How is the poem written?

a)

1st Person Narrative

b)

3rd Person Narrative