Brit Romantic Test

Question 1

Define Laissez-Fraire

Answer 1

“Let the people do as they please”

Question 2

2 meanings of “Romantic”

Answer 2

1. it signifies a fascination with youth and innocence

2. Western societies reached the conditions necessary for industrialization

Question 3

Romantics preferred poetry that…

Answer 3

spoke of personal experience and emotions

Question 4

Romanticism embraced …

Answer 4

imagination and realness

Question 5

Thought of nature as ?

Answer 5

transformative

Question 6

List 4 of the 6 dominant poets

Answer 6

William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley

Question 7

wrote “Tintern Abbey”

Answer 7

Wordsworth

Question 8

Addicted to laudanum

Answer 8

Coleridge

Question 9

the poet that started the Romantic Literature movement

Answer 9

Wordsworth

Question 10

Tried to start a Utopian community

Answer 10

Coleridge

Question 11

Left his family to follow Wordsworth

Answer 11

Coleridge

Question 12

What does the Albatross represent in RoAM?

Answer 12

Good luck

Question 13

How do critics see “Ancient Mariner”?

Answer 13

they see it as a tale of sin and Christian redemption

Question 14

Define alliteration

Answer 14

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 15

Define assonance

Answer 15

the repetition of a VOWEL sound

Question 16

Define consonance

Answer 16

the repetition of CONSONANT sound

Question 17

Define internal rhyme

Answer 17

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

Question 18

This author claimed to have visions

Answer 18

William Blake

Question 19

What were Blake’s earliest visions of?

Answer 19

an angel tree

Question 20

What did Blake begin to do at an early age?

Answer 20

writing and painting

Question 21

Which author became a Greek national hero?

Answer 21

Lord Byron

Question 22

Had a pet bear and other exotic animals

Answer 22

Lord Byron

Question 23

Wrote “Don Juan”

Answer 23

Lord Byron

Question 24

Define Byronic hero

Answer 24

a brooding figure whose ironic attitude and hidden sorrow added to his charm

Question 25

3 ways Don Juan is a mock epic

Answer 25

elaborate descriptions, Homeric simile, and social commentary

Question 26

who wrote Frankenstein?

Answer 26

Mary Shelley

Question 27

who was an outcast of England?

Answer 27

Percy Shelley

Question 28

Died in a boating accident

Answer 28

Percy Shelley

Question 29

outspoken Atheist

Answer 29

Percy Shelley

Question 30

wrote "Ode to the West Wind"

Answer 30

Percy Shelley

Question 31

"The lowered pulses of the river bear..."

Answer 31

personification

Question 32

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes"

Answer 32

metaphor

Question 33

The fields "were patched like one wide crazy quilt"

Answer 33

simile

Question 34

"... drowsy lights along the paths/ are dim and pearled."

Answer 34

metaphor

Question 35

"the twigs are snapping like brittle bones"

Answer 35

simile

Question 36

How is "Ode to the West Wind" similar to the Divine Comedy by Dante?

Answer 36

the rhyme scheme, called "terza rima"

Question 37

died of tuberculosis

Answer 37

John Keats

Question 38

wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "To Autumn"

Answer 38

John Keats

Question 39

Best known for his writing with Coleridge

Answer 39

Wordsworth

Question 40

this author's mom wanted him to be a surgeon

Answer 40

John Keats

Question 41

"Beauty is Truth, Truth is Beauty"

Answer 41

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Question 42

Discuss "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Answer 42

"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty" means that the way that we perceive things becomes our truth, making it beautiful.