British Romantic test

Question 1

Wrote Lyrical Ballads

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Williams Wordsworth with Samuel Coleridge

Question 2

Was addicted to Laudanum

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Samuel Coleridge

Question 3

Launched the Romantic literary movement

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Wordsworth

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Brought Shakespeare back from obscurity

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Coleridge

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Wrote Songs of Experience

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William Blake

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Wife thought he was a genius

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William Blake

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Known as an outcast because of his atheism

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Percy Shelley

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Painted at an early age

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William Blake

Question 9

married Mary and died at age 29

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Percy Shelley

Question 10

A greek national hero

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Lord Byron

Question 11

Had a wide array of pets

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Lord Byron

Question 12

The fourth earl of Oxford

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Horace Walpole

Question 13

Wrote the Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole

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His father was trampled to death when he was eight

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John Keats

Question 15

Famous Scottish poet and lyricist

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Robert Burns

Question 16

Fourth stanza reflects a more older, sophisticated, deeper understanding of nature

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“Tintern Abbey” by Wordsworth

Question 17

Discusses what anger does to a man if not dealt with

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“A Poison Tree” by William Blake

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focuses on the wind’s control over the rest of nature

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“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley

Question 19

Was written to be set to music

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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

Question 20

A romantic poem about the lack of romance

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Don Juan by Lord Byron

Question 21

A poem about plans being interrupted

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“Ode to a Mouse” by Robert Burns

Question 22

There is no passage of time in an idealized world

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“Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats

Question 23

It is believed to be a tale of sin and christian redemption

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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Coleridge

Question 24

Takes place in a church

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“Ode to a Mouse” by Robert Burns

Question 25

Asks the question: Who made you?

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“The Tyger” and “The Lamb”

Question 26

Name three of the dominant romantic poets

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William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Coleridge

Question 27

4 characteristics of a byronic hero

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An outcast, troubled past, cynical, and has an ability to adapt

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Typical setting of the gothic romantic movement

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Dark and gloomy castles

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The overall message of “Ode to a Grecian Urn”

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“Beauty is in truth, truth is in beauty,- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

Question 30

economic philosophy meaning let the people do as they please

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Laissez Faire

Question 31

A long lyric poem written in honor of a person or event

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Ode

Question 32

an arrangement of triplets, often in iambic pentameter

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terza rima

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

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Byronic hero

Question 34

relating to goths or their extinct East Germanic Language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of Germanic language

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Gothic

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knowledge gained through tradition

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lore

Question 36

an extended communication dealing with some particular topic

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discourse

Question 37

sounds that imitate sound words

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onomatopaeio

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repeated vowel sounds

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assonance

Question 39

repeated consonant and sounds

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consonance

Question 40

three things that describe romantic poetry

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the poems usually present imaginative experiences, purpose was to create new realities in the mind and in poetry, Romantic poets used unadorned language to explore the significance of the commonplace