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The Prelude

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote The Prelude?

a)

William Blake

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

William of Orange

d)

John Keats

2.

What type of poem is The Prelude

a)

Lyric

b)

sonnet

c)

epic

d)

ode

3.

What is the poem about?

a)

Childhood memories of war

b)

the abundance of nature

c)

childhood memories of ice -skating

d)

sadness in the city of London

4.

Where is The Prelude set?

a)

Scotland

b)

Greece

c)

London

d)

The Lake District

5.

What season is 'in the frosty season'?

a)

spring

b)

winter

c)

summer

d)

autumn

6.

What does 'a time of rapture mean'?

a)

time of great joy

b)

time of sadness

c)

time of breaking apart

d)

time of playing games

7.

'all shod with steel'

What does this refer to?

a)

an iron

b)

shields

c)

mountains

d)

ice- skates

8.

'We hiss'd along the polished ice'

What device is being used here?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

sibilance

d)

personification

9.

What is the extended metaphor used in the poem?

a)

children as animals hunting

b)

nature as a powerful ruler

c)

pathetic fallacy to show abundance

d)

autumn to represent that things come to an end

10.

What kind of poet was Wordsworth?

a)

modern

b)

war

c)

Romantic era

d)

Victorian- era

11.

What did Romantic -era poets celebrate?

a)

Love and happiness

b)

Industrialisation

c)

Adventures

d)

Nature, innocence and individualism

12.

What did the Romantics dislike?

a)

The Industrial revolution, logic and reason

b)

Museums and statues

c)

Cities and people

d)

Love and romance

13.

'not a voice was (a)   '

14.

'an alien sound of (a)   '

15.

What does melancholy mean?

a)

anger

b)

happiness

c)

fruitiness

d)

sadness

16.

What could the 'alien sound ' mean?

a)

Earth may be invaded

b)

People may be going hunting as there are a pack of dogs

c)

change due to the Industrial Revolution or the end of childhood

d)

He can hear his mother calling