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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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Literature During The Restoration And In The 18th /19th Century
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1. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind?
2. Who wrote: 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'?
3. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period?
4. In which work do you read: 'There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.'?
5. What is Shakespeare's longest play?
6. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?
7. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
8. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
9. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry?
10. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
11. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
12. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
13. In which work do you read: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
14. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
15. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?
16. Who wrote: 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…'?
17. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
18. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press?
19. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called 'mesmerism,' one of the 'occult' practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
20. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
21. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
22. Horace's doctrine 'ut pictura poesis'was interpreted to mean:
23. Who wrote: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'?
24. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
25. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?