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BJU BritishLit Unit6
Study Helps for Unit 6 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote "Lyrical Ballads"? | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| Who were the two crew members of the spectre ship? | Death and Life-in-Death |
| Which section of "Ode to the West Wind" reveals Shelley's agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature? | Section IV |
| In Wordsworth's definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the romantic dislike of control? | the depiction of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." |
| Whose philosophy states that experience is the culmination of human philosophical growth? | William Blake |
| Which ideology evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness? | Utilitarianism |
| Who credited nature as being the major formative influence on his writing? | Wordsworth |
| Who collaborated on a children's version of Shakespeare's works? | Charles and Mary Lamb |
| Whose first unquestionably great poem was "On Looking into Chapman's Homer"? | Keats |
| What theme or focus is Wordsworth's contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics? | the redirection of the poet's attention to himself |
| Did Wordsworth name the Lucy Poems after his daughter? | No |
| What does Blake's "London" condemn in society? | religion, government and family |
| What are associated with mental suffering in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"? | stillness, heat and silence |
| The following absurdities are present in which poem? legs which support nothing; an empire which is now only desert; and the highest part of the statue is now the lowest | Ozmandias |
| In "On This Day" which poetic device was used in "Then look around, and choose thy ground, / And take thy rest."? | caesura |
| What is the controlling imagery of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"? | explorers |
| What is ironic about Blake's inclusion of a graveyard in his "Garden of Love"? | the garden is dedicated to love, but it produces death. Blake's defiance of God's law will only bring misery |
| Who died of tuberculosis (known as "English disease"? | Keats and his brother |
| What makes the "she" of Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" most beautiful? | her character |
| What did Rousseau believe caused human misery? | society |
| What is the most important poetic achievement of British romanticism? | "The Prelude" |
| What is the primary mood of Lamb's essays? | nostalgic daydreaming |
| In "London," what does Blake associate with marriage by using the word hearse? | death and mourning, rather than joy and life |
| What question in Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature? | "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" |
| What is the major theme of "Old China"? | superiority of the old days of youth and poverty |
| Were Wordsworth and Lamb artistic rivals, since Lamb resided in the city and Wordsworth resided in nature? | No, they admired each other |
| Who said that pleasure was the immediate end of poetry? | Coleridge |
| In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what brought about the south to north directional change in the ship's course? | the albatross |
| What poetic device governs the imagery in stanza 1 of "She Walks in Beauty"? | simile |
| In "The Eve of St. Agnes," who helps Porphyro carry out his plan? | Angela |
| In Kant's philosophy of transcendentalism, God is said to be within both nature and mankind and is known as what? | the World Spirit |
| In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, William Blake is espousing the tenet of which French philosopher? | Rousseau |
| What is the common element in all areas of romantic thinking? | freedom from limits |
| According to the speaker in "The World is Too Much with Us," what have we exchanged for our hearts? | materialistic cravings |
| What is the ultimate end of poetry, according to Coleridge? | Truth |
| Who was known as the father of modern literary criticism? | Coleridge |
| What characterizes the Byronic hero? | arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion. |
| What inspired "England in 1819"? | the Peterloo Massacre |
| In "The Eve of St. Agnes," what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality? | a storm |
| Whose policy of laissez faire advocated business noninterference in business? | Adam Smith |
| What is the primary subject of the romantic poem? | the poet himself |
| Which poet wrote the elegy of Keats in "Adonais"? | Shelley |
| Who wrote under the name "Elia" so he would not embarrass his brother? | Charles Lamb |
| In what aspect of poetry does Coleridge differ from Wordsworth? | poetic diction |
| What simile does Wordsworth use to describe the daffodils in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"? | stars |
| What was ironic about William Godwin's anger when Shelley ran off with his daughter? | Godwin's position against marriage |
| According to Wordsworth in Sonnet 1, what is the key difference between the child and the adult? | the child communes with nature directly |
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