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Test Unit 6 Flashcards

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What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?

A

Steam

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Adam Smith’s policy if “Laissez faire” advocated the role of the noninterference in _______by government.

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Business

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According to Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism, which replaced deism, God is said to be within both nature and mankind and is known as what?

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World Spirit

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Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of what?

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Happiness

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The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical and artistic- is what?

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Freedom

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Who was promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society.

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Rousseau

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Characteristics of romantic poetry include:

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The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere

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The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?

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Lyrical Ballads

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What are the years of the Romantic Period?

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1784-1832

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9
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Blake’s “London” condemns the following institutions of society:

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Religion
Government
Family

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In “London” Blake associates ________ and _______, rather than ________ and _________, with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse.

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death and mourning

joy and life

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According to Blake, obeying one’s imagination and feelings constitutes what?

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Man’s salvation

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In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, Blake is espousing the tenet of who?

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French philosopher, Roussau.

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In his work “Garden of Love” it is ironic that Blake includes a graveyard because why?

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the garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death; Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s law will bring him only misery.

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The authors of lyrical ballads are who?

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

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Wordsworth credited what as being the major of formative influence on his writing?

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nature

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16
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The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is?

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The Prelude

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Wordsworth uses the simile of what to describe the daffidils in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?

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Stars

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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, the depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” reflects what?

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the romantic dislike of control.

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The redirection of what is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s controbution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?

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poet’s attention to himself

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20
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According to sonnet 1, the difference between the child and the adult is what?

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the child communes with nature directly.

21
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According to the speaker in “The World is Too Much With Us” what have exchanged for our hearts?

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Materialistic cravings

22
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According to Coleridge the immediate end of poetry is what? What is the ultimate end of poetry?

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Pleasure

Truth

23
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In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the albatross brought about the directional change of what?

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south to north in the ship’s course.

24
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What are associated with the time of the ancient mariner?

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Stillness, heat and silence

25
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The sailors punish the Mariner by doing what?

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hanging the dead albatross around his neck

26
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The Mariner shot the albatross without any what?

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provocation and offer no move or justification.

27
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The two crew memebers of the specter ship death are what?

A

death and Life-In- Death

28
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Coleridge differs from Wordsworth in his view of what?

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poetic diction.

29
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Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated on what?

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a children’s version of Shakespeare’s works.

30
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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?

A

Nostalgic daydreaming

31
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Lamb decided to write under the name of what so that he would not embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House.

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Elia

32
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The major theme of “Old China” is what?

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the superiority of the old days of the youth and poverty.

33
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Wordsworth admired Lamb’s writing. He saw Lamb as what?

A

kindred spirit and his essays a literary word simliar to his own.

34
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The Byronic hero is characterized by what?

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arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion.

35
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Who was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle?

A

Don Juan

36
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In his work “On This Day” the lines “then look around,and choose thy ground/and take thy rest” use the poetic device ________ as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation.

A

caesura

37
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In “She Walks in Beauty” the poetic device _______ governs the imagery in stanza 1

A

Simile

38
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What was written as a result of Byron’s travels to the Mediterranean from 1809-1811?

A

“Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage”

39
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“England in 1819” was inspired by what historical?

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event of the Peterloo Massacre.

40
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William Godwin’s position against matrimony is ironic why?

A

because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley.

41
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What is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats?

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“Adonais”

42
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Ozymandias” has the following absurdities:

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Legs which support nothing
An empire which is now only desert
The highest part of the statue is now the lowest

43
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Theme and most famous rhetorical question in english literature for “Ode to The West Wind”

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if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

44
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Section 4 of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals what?

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Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature.

45
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Keats first unquestionably great poem was what?

A

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

46
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In “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” the controlling imagery is what?

A

explorers

47
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In “ the Eve of St.Agnes” who helps porphyro carry out his plan?

A

Angelo

48
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In “The Eve of St. Agnes” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

A

A storm

49
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Keat’s brother and eventually Keats himself died of what English disease?

A

tuberculosis

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