the vanity of human wishes 🦚💅🦚 Flashcards
what did the poet mean by “vent’rous pride”?
a) risky pride
b) adventurous pride
c) vindicating pride
a) risky pride
what did the poet mean by “treach’rous phantoms”?
a) unreliable apparitions
b) trusting ghost
c) slippery grounds
a) unreliable apparitions
to “delude” is to?
a) guide
b) deceive
c) trust
b) deceive
to be “suppliant’ is to be?
a) demanding
b) supplying
c) entreating
c) entreating
what did the poet mean by”the afflictive dart” in the second stanza?
a) a long stick
b) a harming missile that represents the pains of fate
c) a harming missile that represents the irony of honesty and trust
b) a harming missile that represents the pains of fate
the poet acknowledges that having more wealth and money gives you more power, safety, and truth. true or false?
false, The speaker also says that no matter how rich we are, we can’t buy truth or safety. On the contrary: more wealth brings with it more danger.
“And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tow’r,” what does the poet mean by”the tow’r” ?
a) the tower of Babel
b) the tower of the queen
c) the tower of London
c) the tower of London
“Tho’ confiscation’s vultures hover round.” what does the poet mean by that?
a) that the birds will take the peasant’s food anyways
b) that the rich will take away the poor’s food or money
c) that poor people don’t need to worry because confiscation only comes to the rich
b) that the rich will take away the poor’s food or money
“the wild heath” here means?
a) the pushy forests
b) the wasteland
c) the corrupted earth
b) the wasteland
if the traveler attained wealth………….
a) he will be happy to be a rich man
b) he will fear losing his riches and that will make him unhappy
c) he will be killed by thieves
b) he will fear losing his riches and that will make him unhappy
who does Coleridge call on to see the state of Britain?
a) damian
b) Damascius
c) Democritus
c) Democritus
“In full-blown dignity see Wolsey stand”
who is Coleridge referring to in these lines?
a) a politician under king henry vlll
b) John Wesely founder of the Methodist movement
in church
a) a politician under king henry vlll
what does a “Palladium,” refer to?
a reference to the Greek goddess of wisdom, Pallas Athena.
what was the d+fate of these politicians in order :
George Villiers……………..Robert Harley……………Wentworth……..Edward Hyde…………….
assassinated,disease,executed,exile
what happened to Galileo Galilei?
arrested by the Catholic Church.
William Laud was ……….?
a) a contemporary scholar of Coleridge
b) the pope in 1633
c) he was the archbishop of Canterbury
c) he was the archbishop of canterbury
in johnson’s opinion, brave people are always virtuous.
true or false?
false, brave people want to be famous and don’t always care about being good
what was the end of Charles the xll?
He was condemned to live out the rest of his life in exile, on a barren shore, in a pathetic little fortress.
why did Xerxes decide to whip the sea?😂🤦♂️
because of its insolence after a storm destroys his bridge across the Dardanelles. Despite initial successes in the Greek campaign, Xerxes loses the decisive sea battle at Salamis in 480 BCE, and, with his navy destroyed, he is no longer able to pursue aggression. The speaker implies the “insulted sea” sided with the humbler Greeks.
who was “the bold Bavarian,”?
Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII, whom he calls
who took the holy roman emperor title after the defeat of Charles VII?
Maria Theresa ascended to Holy Roman Empress after defeating him in battle ( yaaaaaaasss! queeen!!) huge slay
who took the holy roman emperor title after the defeat of Charles VII?
Maria Theresa ascended to Holy Roman Empress after defeating him in battle ( yaaaaaaasss! queen!!) huge slay
what is the meter in “ The vanity of human wishes”?
iambic pentameter, each line has five sets of unstressed and stressed syllables, for example: “ReMARK each ANxious TOIL, each EAger STRIFE, / and WATCH the BUSy SCENES of CROWDed LIFE.”
Samuel Johnson was a Roman stoic. True or false?
false, Samuel Johnson, by contrast, was a devout Anglican
