British Literature II -- Romantic Exam
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This is a quiz to prepare me for my first exam in Brit Lit II. The quiz is over Romantic Poetry.
- 1.Who wrote: "Songs of Innocence," "Songs of Experience," and "Visions of the Daughters of Albion?"
- A.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- B.
Lord Byron
- C.
William Blake
- 2.Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women?"
- A.
Joanna Baillie
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- 3.Who wrote "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," and "A Red, Red Rose?"
- A.
Robert Burns
- B.
Lord Byron
- C.
John Keats
- 4.Who wrote "Tinturn Abbey," "The Lucy Poems," "The World is too Much With Us," and "Surprised by Joy?"
- A.
Dorothy Wordsworth
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 5.Who wrote the journals?
- A.
Thomas De Quincey
- B.
Percy Shelley
- C.
Dorothy Wordsworth
- 6.Who wrote "Kubla Khan," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Dejection Ode," and "The Pains of Sleep?"
- A.
William Blake
- B.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- C.
John Keats
- 7.Who wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater?"
- A.
Thomas De Quincey
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Lord Byron
- 8.Who wrote "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?"
- A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- B.
Lord Byron
- C.
Percy Shelley
- 9.Who wrote "Hymn to an Intellectual Beauty," "To a Skylark," "A Defence of Poetry," and "To Wordworth?"
- A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- B.
John Keats
- C.
Thomas De Quincey
- 10.Who wrote "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "Sonnet to Sleep," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "A Thing of Beauty," and "Ode to a Nightingale?"
- A.
William Wordsworth
- B.
John Keats
- C.
William Blake
- 11.Who said, "A poem is the expression of "negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason?""
- A.
Lord Byron
- B.
William Blake
- C.
John Keats
- 12.Who said, "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds?"
- A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 13.Who said, "'Tis to create, and in creating live / a being more intense?"
- A.
Lord Byron
- B.
William Blake
- C.
John Keats
- 14.Who said, "Simple, sensuous, passionate and by its imagery elicit truth at a flash?"
- A.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 15.Who said, "The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings... recollection in tranquility?"
- A.
William Blake
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 16.Who said, "Poetry is the experience of the spirit and life... (of the) Real Man: The Imagination which liveth forever?"
- A.
John Keats
- B.
William Blake
- C.
Lord Byron
- 17.What are words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period?
- A.
Archaisms
- B.
Internal rhyme
- C.
Medievalism
- 18.What are songs in Scots dialect collected by Robert Burns?
- A.
Iambic pentameter
- B.
Nature
- C.
Ayres
- 19.What is a popular four-line verse form using alternating rhyme associated with fold songs/hymn?
- A.
Heroic couplet
- B.
Ballad
- C.
Sonnet
- 20.What are poems written by professional poets that imitate the story-telling techniques of traditional ballads?
- A.
Art ballads
- B.
Incremental repetition
- C.
Archaisms
- 21.What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?
- A.
Platonism
- B.
Mythic pattern
- C.
Blank verse
- 22.What is a pause usually in the middle of a line of verse indicated by a pause in sense?
- A.
Enjambment
- B.
Gothicism
- C.
Caesura
- 23.What is a technique used in ballads in which the narrative is presented through a question and answer exchange?
- A.
Dialogue format
- B.
Spenserian stanza
- C.
Orientalism
- 24.What is the running over of two or more lines of verse without end punctuation?
- A.
Enjambment
- B.
Ayres
- C.
Pisan circle
- 25.What is an imaginative type of essay popular during the Romantic period? E.g. Thomas De Quincey's "The Confessions of an English Opium Eater."
- A.
Iambic pentameter
- B.
Familar essay
- C.
Mythic pattern
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