A sailor learns the importance of respecting nature
What is the Rhime of the Ancient Mariner?
100
True love triumphs but flees into uncertainty.
What is The Eve of St. Agnes?
100
The most significant political event of the Romantic period
What is the French Revolution?
200
The duo who authored Lyrical Ballads
Who are Wordsworth and Coleridge?
200
He was greatly helped in his career and encouraged by Samuel Coleridge.
Who is William Wordsworth?
200
The writer returns to an inspiring location that has given him many happy memories
What is Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?
200
An image of paradise that is inspired by a dream.
What is Kubla Khan?
200
Romantic writers were largely reacting to this development in society.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
His wife drowned herself after he took up an affair with another woman.
Who is Percy Shelley?
300
He died at the age of 25.
Who is John Keats?
300
The character in Rhime of the Ancient Mariner who wins the dice game.
Who is Life-In-Death?
300
A group of poems that focus on themes of death (written while spending the winter with his sister)
What are "The Lucy Poems"?
300
The efforts that the British government took to moderate the growth of industry during the Romantic period.
None. The government was laissez faire in terms of controlling the growth of industry.
400
This writer's parents were both esteemed intellectuals.
Who is Mary Shelley?
400
Writer whose social satire and keen observations of human behavior are more closely related to the writings of Pope and Johnson than the Romantic writers.
Who is Jane Austen?
400
"Look on my works and, ye Mighty, and despair!"
What is Osymandias?
400
In "Apostrophe to the Ocean" this is why the ocean is superior to the land.
What is because man has not been able to conquer and subdue the ocean like he has the land?
400
Even through the nineteenth century, critics demanded "correctness" in language, a demand that centered on this aspect of language.
What are slang terms?
500
Name two writers who existed on the fringe of society, were seen as eccentric or scandalous.
Who are Lord Byron and Percy Shelley?
500
He embodied the Romantic spirit but aligned himself more with the ideas of Dryden and Pope.
Who is Lord Byron (George Gordon)?
500
Three other works of literature that are alluded to in Frankenstein.
What is The Divine Comedy (Dante), The Rhime of the Ancient Mariner, Paradise Lost (John Milton), the myth of Prometheus
500
The three reasons Mr. Collins gives for marrying
- Setting an example as a clergyman
- It will add to his happiness
- His patroness has demanded he do so
500
Innovations in Webster's dictionary, the first real American dictionary, included this.
What is the use of simplified forms of British spelling?