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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. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
2. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
3. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
4. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
5. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: 'Men of England' and England in 1819?
6. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
7. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
8. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
9. In which county was Jane Austin born?
10. In the late seventeenth century, a 'battle of the books'erupted between which two groups?
11. Who is termed as 'The Morning Star of Renaissance'?
12. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
13. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
14. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
15. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
16. What was 'restored'in 1660?
17. In which work do you read: 'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.'?
18. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet?
19. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
20. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created which literary genre?
21. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the
22. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'?
23. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?
24. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?
25. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature …..