Themes
The love which should bind together all created things
What is the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!"
"To a Louse"
The character who had to listen to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; he was a "sadder but wiser" man after hearing the story.
Who was the wedding guest?
Who was Sir Walter Scott?
The first novel dealing with an entire family
What is Pride and Prejudice
The false idea that the spirit of God dwells in nature and that to commune with nature is to commune with God
What is Pantheism
Outdated forms of words rarely used in modern English
What are archaic words?
Permanence in a world of change can be satisfied through art
What is the theme of "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
" 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that's all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
The man who insults Elizabeth Bennet by refusing to dance with her.
Who is Mr. Darcy?
The poet who introduced the Byronic hero in his famous piece Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Who was George Gordon, Lord Byron?
The story of a soldier who wants to be in battle but cannot because he is wounded and weak
What is "Ivanhoe and Rebecca" (or Ivanhoe)?
The informal more personal essay popularized by Charles Lamb
What is the familiar essay?
A skeleton in the closet
Hint: the answer has to do with idioms
What idiom means a person has a secret?
Lament of times that are no more and the simplicity of rural life
What is the theme of The Deserted Village?
"Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink"
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
As a young man, his chief ambition was to become a sailor
Who was Robinson Crusoe?
The poet considered the greatest English poet since Milton
Who was William Wordsworth?
The piece that William Wordsworth published in 1798 that initiated the Romantic movement
What is Lyrical Ballads?
The substitution of a word or phrase for another term closely related to it
What is a metonymy
ref
What means "faulty pronoun reference"?
Teaches man to be sincere and not to be hypocritical
What is the theme/moral of "To a Louse"?
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth."
"The Deserted Village"
Who was Rebecca?
The poet who possessed the greatest mind of the Romantic Movement
Who Was Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The piece that deals with a man who had to do penance for killing an albatross
What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Addressing an inanimate object as a person or an absent person as if he were present
What is an apostrophe?
The brief biographical, geographical, and mythological information in a dictionary entry
What is the encyclopedic information?
What is the theme of "The Tables Turned"?
"Say first, of God above or Man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?"
"An Essay on Man"
A physician on a ship in a Jonathan Swift's famous satirical novel
Who was Guilliver?
The poet considered the greatest English lyricist; also the author of "A Dirge"
Who was Percy Bysshe Shelley?
The story of a traveler who meets many interesting living creatures, including the six-inch Lilliputians
What is Gulliver's Travels?
The novel that dealt with social customs of a particular time and place
What is the novel of manners?
Burning the midnight oil
Hint: the answer has to do with an idiom
What idiom means "working late"?
All things are prone to change
What is the theme of "Mutability"?
"Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?"
"Lines Written in Early Spring"
A native islander that Robinson Crusoe led to Christ
Who was Friday?
The poet who believed that "a thing of beauty lasts forever."
Who was John Keats?
The most famous ode in the English language
What is "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
A poem characterized by sober meditations on death
What is an elegiac poem?
exempli gratia (e.g.)
What means "for example"?
The power of nature to impress our minds
What is the theme of "Expostulation and Reply"?
"Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!"
I Fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
"Ode to the West Wind"
Intelligent beings that resembled horses
Who were the houyhnhnms?
The writer who compiled the first Romantic hymnal
Who Was Reginald Heber?
The story involving the Black Knight
What is Ivanhoe?
Meter in which the first, second, and fourth lines have six syllables, and the third line has eight syllables
What is short meter?
id est (i.e.)
What means "that is"?