English Test- Romantic Poetry

Question 1

What are the ideas/characteristics of Romanticism?

Answer 1

Idealistic view and good for society
Nature was the best teacher
Nature brings you closer to God
Freedom/Liberty
Individual Expression

Question 2

How is Romanticism a rebellion?

Answer 2

It goes against old beliefs

Question 3

What publication signaled the beginning of the Romantic movement in England?

Answer 3

Lyrical ballads

Question 4

What is the chronological order of the poets?

Answer 4

Robert Bruns
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Willam Blake

Question 5

Wordsworth

Answer 5

Living in France had brought Wordsworth interest and sympathy towards his life because of the troubles and speech of the common/normal man. These issues were clearly expressed through his works.

Question 6

Coldridge

Answer 6

October 1772 – 25 July 1834, was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian
who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with
his friend William Wordsworth.

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words.

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

the repetition of the sound of a vowel

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action
to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 11

Simile

Answer 11

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

Question 12

Onomatopoeia

Answer 12

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

Question 14

Trochee

Answer 14

stressed/unstressed - a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed
by one short or unstressed syllable.

Question 15

Stanza

Answer 15

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Question 16

Meter

Answer 16

Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry

Question 17

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 17

the formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem.

Question 18

Iamb - unstressed/stressed

Answer 18

A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.

Question 19

What distinguishes Romanticism from the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution?

Answer 19

Romanticism is all about Free Will and what you want. we live in a very romantic world because we care about what makes us happy and what we feel. this time period we are more connected with nature and what makes us us. Romanticism gives us this important of enjoying life. while the agent Enlightenment is all about the new ideas and fixing the wrongs and the Industrial Revolution is all about freedom and identity and New Creations.

Question 20

What characteristics distinguish the second generation of Romantics from the first generation?

Answer 20

The first generation was focused on creating new machines to better and make them evolve. but the second generation is worried about what makes them happy and what they feel.

Question 21

Why did the Romantics connect to nature so strongly?

Answer 21

They connect with nature because nature is free and everything is connected to nature. Nature is where everything starts and end.

Question 22

How do certain characteristics, like individualism and rebellion, of the Romantic movement play out? What poems specifically demonstrate these?

Answer 22

For one of the poems men of England that’s Rebellion because it’s going against everything that common men do. Romantic play a role with giving the people right to be able to feel need of change of there daily life. The want there life to be happy.

Question 23

What publication kicked off the Romantic momvement in English literature?

Answer 23

Lyrical Ballads

Question 24

What in particular were the Romantics pushing back against?

Answer 24

urbanization and Industrialization

Question 25

What did the traveller from an antique land see in the desert

Answer 25

two vast and trunkless and legs of stone

Question 26

What words appear on the pedestal of the colossal wreck of Ozymandias?

Answer 26

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and deapair!

Question 27

How can the juxtaposition of Oz’s claims and the empty destruction at the end be interpreted?

Answer 27

1. The art and language live on beyond all political power
2. Time defeats all,no matter how grand we are

Question 28

The lamb

Answer 28

Willam Blake
trochaic trimeter
Lamb is about innocence and a child

Question 29

The tyger

Answer 29

Willam Blake
it all about the sins and the evil of the world

Question 30

The world is too much with us

Answer 30

William Wordsworth
The word is too good for us we don’t deserve it. God created this beautiful world and we destroy it concisely. We are struck not reaching our full potential. Everything we think we own, we don’t. God owns everything.

Question 31

It is a Beauteous evening, Calm and free

Answer 31

William Wordsworth
It talks about nature
Being a child of God
It talks of all of the pure of God

Question 32

A Song of Men of England

Answer 32

Trochic trimeter
Percy Shelly
It talks about the poor
to not take the missed treatment
to stand against them

Question 33

To Autumn

Answer 33

Iambic penter
John Keats
It describes the beauty of the season and everything it brings.