Quiz: Romanticism In British Literature
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British literature is rich and diverse. It reflects the intellectual heft and creativity of the Britishers. This quiz on the romanticism in British literature is aimed at enriching your British literature reservoir. The quiz will familiarize you with the vastness, creativeness, and uniqueness of British literature; it will also introduce you to the legendary poets, writers, and different genres. So play this quiz if you are a literature student and want to know more. If you like the quiz, share it with your friends. All the best!
- 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
- D.
John Locke
- 2.Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women?"
- A.
Joanna Baillie
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- D.
Immanuel Kant
- 3.Who wrote "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," and "A Red, Red Rose?"
- A.
Robert Burns
- B.
Lord Byron
- C.
John Keats
- D.
Charles Dickens
- 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
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 5.Who wrote the journals?
- A.
Thomas De Quincey
- B.
Percy Shelley
- C.
Dorothy Wordsworth
- D.
John Keats
- 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
- D.
J.S Mill
- 7.Who wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater?"
- A.
Thomas De Quincey
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Lord Byron
- D.
John Keats
- 8.Who wrote "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?"
- A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- B.
Lord Byron
- C.
Percy Shelley
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- D.
Ruskin Bond
- 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
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 13.Who said, "'Tis to create, and in creating live / a being more intense?"
- A.
Lord Byron
- B.
William Blake
- C.
John Keats
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- D.
William Blake
- 15.Who said, "The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings... recollection in tranquility?"
- A.
William Blake
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- D.
John Keats
- 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
- D.
None of the above
- 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
- D.
None of the above
- 18.What are songs in Scots dialect collected by Robert Burns?
- A.
Iambic pentameter
- B.
Nature
- C.
Ayres
- D.
All of the above
- 19.What is a popular four-line verse form using alternating rhyme associated with fold songs/hymn?
- A.
Heroic couplet
- B.
Ballad
- C.
Sonnet
- D.
None of the above
- 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
- D.
Sonnets
- 21.What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?
- A.
Platonism
- B.
Mythic pattern
- C.
Blank verse
- D.
Rhyming 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
- D.
None of the above
- 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
- D.
Sinoism
- 24.What is the running over of two or more lines of verse without end punctuation?
- A.
Enjambment
- B.
Ayres
- C.
Pisan circle
- D.
None of the above
- 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
- D.
Medievalism
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