Brit Romantic Test Flashcards
Define Laissez-Fraire
“Let the people do as they please”
2 meanings of “Romantic”
- it signifies a fascination with youth and innocence
2. Western societies reached the conditions necessary for industrialization
Romantics preferred poetry that…
spoke of personal experience and emotions
Romanticism embraced …
imagination and realness
Thought of nature as ?
transformative
List 4 of the 6 dominant poets
William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley
wrote “Tintern Abbey”
Wordsworth
Addicted to laudanum
Coleridge
the poet that started the Romantic Literature movement
Wordsworth
Tried to start a Utopian community
Coleridge
Left his family to follow Wordsworth
Coleridge
What does the Albatross represent in RoAM?
Good luck
How do critics see “Ancient Mariner”?
they see it as a tale of sin and Christian redemption
Define alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Define assonance
the repetition of a VOWEL sound
Define consonance
the repetition of CONSONANT sound
Define internal rhyme
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
This author claimed to have visions
William Blake
What were Blake’s earliest visions of?
an angel tree
What did Blake begin to do at an early age?
writing and painting
Which author became a Greek national hero?
Lord Byron
Had a pet bear and other exotic animals
Lord Byron
Wrote “Don Juan”
Lord Byron
Define Byronic hero
a brooding figure whose ironic attitude and hidden sorrow added to his charm
3 ways Don Juan is a mock epic
elaborate descriptions, Homeric simile, and social commentary
who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
who was an outcast of England?
Percy Shelley
Died in a boating accident
Percy Shelley
outspoken Atheist
Percy Shelley
wrote “Ode to the West Wind”
Percy Shelley
“The lowered pulses of the river bear…”
personification
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes”
metaphor
The fields “were patched like one wide crazy quilt”
simile
“… drowsy lights along the paths/ are dim and pearled.”
metaphor
“the twigs are snapping like brittle bones”
simile
How is “Ode to the West Wind” similar to the Divine Comedy by Dante?
the rhyme scheme, called “terza rima”
died of tuberculosis
John Keats
wrote “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “To Autumn”
John Keats
Best known for his writing with Coleridge
Wordsworth
this author’s mom wanted him to be a surgeon
John Keats
“Beauty is Truth, Truth is Beauty”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Discuss “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” means that the way that we perceive things becomes our truth, making it beautiful.
