2nd Sem Test 2 Flashcards
Which two British heroes won significant victories at sea and on land against Napoleon?
Horatio Nelson
Arthur Wellesley
Duke of Wellington
The Reform Act of 1832 accomplished all of the following except
that a secret ballot was established in voting procedures.
Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?
A.Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality
b. All knowledge = creation of the individual’s mind.
Both
Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by
society.
Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that
intuition has some validity.
London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?
Paris
Which two political parties dominated the Victorian era?
Conservative and Liberal
Which two prime ministers dominated the Victorian era?
Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone
T/F-A common dement in all areas of romantic thinking political, philosophical, and artistic is freedom from
limits.
True
T/F-Within the context of romanticism, a nation’s literature is the primary instrument of transformative change
and improvement.
True
T/F-Romanticism’s goal was to change society by addressing the group, not the individual.
Thic
False
T/F-Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.
True
Steam power was a major factor in the communication revolution in England.
True
The policy of laissez faire advocated what role for government?
Hands off
What book embodied the most culturally si feant result of interest in natural science?
On the origins of species by Darwin
Which colony of the British Empire was known as the “jewel in the crown?”
India
Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?
- Humanity is unable to fully or accurately observe reality.
- All knowledge is in some way a creation of the individual’s mind
Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by
Society
London replaced which city as the hub of European civilization?
Paris
Which two middle-class and self-educated writers were ahead of their time and took their writing in entirely new directions
Robert Burns and William Blake
According to your textbook, which two authors exhibited in their writings a transitional stage between neoclassicism and romanticism?
Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen
Burns’s “To a Mouse” uses which of the following to communicate his perspective on man’s hopes and, more broadly, his nationalism and devotion to the common man and nature?
A rural dialect and colorful images
Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” exhibits what literary device in the following excerpt?
Hyperbole
Burns’s use of what literary device is evident in the following excerpt from “A Red, Red Rose”?
“O my luv’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”
Simile
The following excerpt from Blake’s “The Lamb” illustrates what syntactical device?
“He is meek and he is mild.”
parallelism
What device does Blake use in the following excerpt from “London”?
“In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.”
anaphora
Blake’s “London” condemns all the following institutions of society except
education.
In the following excerpt from A Vindication, Wollstonecraft makes what kind of rhetorical appeal?
“Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason.”
ethos
Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argues that in both men and women, true virtue is preceded by
a life of service.
In A Vindication, what does Wollstonecraft call for?
women to be considered equal with men and to have equal access to education
In Pride and Prejudice, which of Lizzy’s characteristics does Mr. Bennet distinguish as setting her apart from
her sisters?
her intelligence
Aside from the obvious focus on nature, what do “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” have in common?
an emphasis on the memory of experiences with nature
Beyond his work with poetry, what genre of literature is Coleridge best known for?
literary criticism
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in what poetic form?
ballad stanza
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how does the mariner kill the albatross?
with a crossbow
What was the preeminent genre of Victorian literature?
novels
The Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except
remorse and repentance.
Byron resurrected Spenser’s stanza form, Spenserian stanza, characterized by which of the following?
eight lines in iambic pentameter and one in iambic hexameter
“Ode to the West Wind” uses which poetic form?
terza rima
Which genre, popular among Romantic poets, is characterized by exaltations or meditations in which the speaker works through a problem in his mind?
ode
“England in 1819” was inspired by which historical event?
the Battle of Peterloo
VIn “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats lists all of the following that will not fade except
the lovers’ marriage.
What do the sailors mean by hanging the albatross around the Mariner’s neck? What does the albatross symbolize?
Guilt as they blame him
At what point does the mariner’s guilt subside? What happens as a result of his “confession”?
when the albatos falls due to the mariner confessing natures beauty
Adonais is Shelley’s elegy on the death of whom?
Keats
Fill in the blanks to complete this famous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which encapsulates
Keats’s philosophy. “Beauty is
beauty.”
Truth
