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Question 1

• The most popular genres of poems were……..,………,……..,…….,…….,……… .

Answer 1

epic, ode, satire, elegy, epistle, and song

Question 2

nearly every eighteenth-century poet at least thought of writing an epic To show their fealty to …………,……………

Answer 2

Homer and Vergil

Question 3

what kind of poem is the rape of the Lock?

Answer 3

mock-epic

Question 4

when was the rape of the Lock written?

Answer 4

1712, 1714

Question 5

true or false:
Eighteenth-century poets had more success writing Epics than they did writing Odes.

Answer 5

false, odes than epics

Question 6

a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung. typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular meter. is the definition of?

Answer 6

Odes

Question 7

true or false:

Pindaric odes were used for personal and meditative themes

Answer 7

false, for exalted subjects.

Question 8

true or false:

Horatian odes were used for various urbane, personal, and meditative themes

Answer 8

true.

Question 9

true or false:
The nineteenth century was, of course, the golden age of satire.

Answer 9

false, The eighteenth century.

Question 10

a poem that uses irony, humor, or exaggeration in order to criticize an aspect of contemporary society.

Answer 10

satirical poem

Question 11

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Answer 11

Elegy

Question 12

true or false:

Elegies in Latin and Greek were composed in elegiac couplets rather than the hexameter lines of the epic and the pastoral.

Answer 12

true.

Question 13

true or false:

Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751)
is an elegy for all “high class” and not obscure men.

Answer 13

false, is an elegy for all “average” and obscure men.

Question 14

a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters.

Answer 14

Epistles

Question 15

true or false:

Virgil provided the classical model for the verse epistle.

Answer 15

false, Horace

Question 16

true or false:
The epistle, or verse letter, was an important form in the eighteenth century, reached its height in the epistles of Pope in the 1740s, and continued to be popular until the end of the nineteenth century.

Answer 16

false, , an important form in the seventeenth
century

Question 17

true or false:
all epistles were written in heroic couplets

Answer 17

true.

Question 18

…………………used the song to achieve brevity and, at times, elegance.

Answer 18

lyric poetry.

Question 19

but the greatest of the songwriters………………came at the end.

a) William Somerville b)Robert Burns (1759-1796)
c)Mark Akenside

Answer 19

b)Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Question 20

“a short poem or phrase that expresses an idea in a clever or humorous way”

Answer 20

Epigrams

Question 21

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope
is an example of :

a) a quote
b) lyric poetry
c) Epigram

Answer 21

c) Epigram

Question 22

Epigrams began in the 18th century. true or false?

Answer 22

false, began in the Renaissance

Question 23

The average epigram was at most ………… lines long, beginning with something to arouse curiosity or anticipation and closing with humor or surprise.

a) nine
b) eight
c) six

Answer 23

c) six

Question 24

Gay’s Fables (1727, 1738) was targeted toward children.

Answer 24

false, Far from being childlike, Gay’s Fables (1727, 1738) expressed a disillusioned cynicism toward humankind, particularly emphasizing foolish human pride.

Question 25

narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses.

Answer 25

fables

Question 26

The favorite form for the fables was……………….. couplet.

a) iambic tetrameter
b) iambic pentameter
c) Heroic

Answer 26

a) iambic tetrameter

Question 27

William Somerville (The Chace, 1735),
Henry Brooke (Universal Beauty, 1735),
), Mark Akenside (The Pleasures of the Imagination, 1744), and Young (Night-Thoughts),

are all examples of………………..

Answer 27

Didactic poetry

Question 28

Thomas Warton’s celebratory “The Pleasures of Melancholy” (1747) avoided the didacticism of some of Milton’s followers and cultivated relaxed and idyllic moods instead. true or false?

Answer 28

true.

Question 29

sensibility was in the later half of the eighteenth century. true or false?

Answer 29

false, in the first half of the eighteenth century

Question 30

The latter half of the century produced a transition period from the nobility and potential of the individual to concentration on society as the preserver of the best in humanity. true or false?

Answer 30

false, اعكسها😊😊

Question 31

Thomas Warton, the elder, wrote “A Runic Ode,” and Thomas Warton, the younger, wrote three volumes on the history of English poetry from the twelfth to the close of the sixteenth century (1774-1781).

were written in the style of

a) Gothicism
b)Didactic poetry
c)The nature of humankind

Answer 31

a) Gothicism

Question 32

Henry Carey’s Sally in Our Alley,
Gay’s ’Twas When the Seas Were Roaring (1715)
were in the forms of:

a) lyric poetry
b) didactic poetry
c) ballads

Answer 32

c) ballads

Question 33

Thomas Percy’s collection, Reliques of Ancient Poetry, in 1765. was a type of ……………

Answer 33

ballad.

Question 34

Cowper’s “The Diverting History of John Gilpin” was a …………… in the later part of the century.

Answer 34

ballad

Question 35

Isaac Watts wrote Divine and Moral Songs for Children (1715) was a type of ……………

Answer 35

Children’s poetry

Question 36

Blake
wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) specifically for ……………….

Answer 36

children.

Question 37

john dryden died in……………….

Answer 37

1700

Question 38

john dryden death signaled a dramatic change in poetic style . true or false?

Answer 38

false, poets walked in his footsteps, moving away from metaphysical conceits

Question 39

18 century poets had a passion for order and regularization. t or f?

Answer 39

t

Question 40

common restoration subjects like imperious mistress and the cacophony of critics was no longer used. true or false?

Answer 40

false, continue to be used

Question 41

heroic couplets and lampoons and political satire we written through out the 1800 hundreds. T or F ?

Answer 41

f,1700