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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. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
2. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?
3. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic.
4. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: 'Who think too little, and who talk too …..'
5. What is Shakespeare's longest play?
6. What was 'restored'in 1660?
7. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?
8. According to Samuel Johnson, 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for…:
9. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
10. The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between
11. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?
12. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
13. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the 'founding' of neoclassical poetry?
14. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
15. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
16. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
17. Who wrote: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!'?
18. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
19. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
20. In the late seventeenth century, a 'battle of the books' erupted between which two groups?
21. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
22. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
23. Who exemplified the role of the 'peasant poet'?
24. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
25. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?