Romantic Period Essentials
What is the Romantic Period?
Romantic poetry is typically focused on one or both of these ideas.
What is nature? What is emotion/personal experience/feelings?
This is a type of poem which is written to or in honor of something.
This is the genre of literature of which Frankenstein is an example.
What is Romantic? What is Gothic? What is science-fiction?
By being emotionally expressive, the Creature is reflecting this literary movement of the early 19th century.
What is Romantic?
The Romantic poets and artists typically focused on these two key ideas in their work.
What is emotion/personal experience/feelings? What is nature?
This literary technique might be used to create a vivid picture of nature in a piece of Romantic poetry.
This is a type of sonnet which has the following rhyme scheme:
ABBAABBACDCDCD
OR
ABBAABBACDEDCE
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
This is a prefix which means "not" which could turn a word such as distinct into its antonym.
What is "in-"?
During its tale, the Creature describes his earliest memories and struggles to remind Victor how he did this to the Creature, leaving it helpless as a result.
This is a descriptive literary technique in which the five senses are appealed to in order to construct a scene in a reader's mind.
What is imagery/sensory language?
Open to page 506 of your textbook.
These two lines appear to contribute the most to the peaceful, tranquil mood of the poem.
What is line 11? What is line 14
Open your textbook to page 516.
This trio of lines in stanza 3 of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" best demonstrate's Keats's preference for frozen moments over an unfrozen life.
What are lines 28-30?
As the Creature experiences the world for the first time in Part II, Chapter III, these are becoming clearer to him.
What are perceptions? What are senses?
As the product of technological and scientific advances, the Creature is an outgrowth of this real-world technological/scientific movement of the Romantic period.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is a type of literature which began to emerge during the Romantic Period which focused on the dangers of Enlightenment ideals such as science, reason, and logic.
What is science-fiction?
Open your textbook to page 508.
This is the rhyme scheme of the third stanza of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
What is ABABCC?
Open your textbooks to page 515.
This option below best describes the tone of "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
a. celebratory
b. regretful
c. nervous
d. melancholic
What is a? What is celebratory?
This aspect of the creature's character develops through his experiences with the setting/world.
What is point of view?
True or False:
An artificial creature being capable of human sensations, as well as trying to speak but being scared of the sound he makes, is an example of scientific plausability in a science-fiction story.
What is False?
This is a method of using the same pattern of words in writing to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
Incorrect Ex: Mary Shelley not only writes books but also poetry.
Correct Ex: Mary Shelly writes not only books but also poetry.
Correct Ex: Mary shelley not only writes books but also writes poetry.
What is parallel structure?
Open your textbooks to page 508.
This is a possible theme of the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
What is memory? What is nature/nature's beauty?
True or False:
A poem which is titled "To X" is written as an ode poem praising or uplifting whatever the subject of the poem is.
What is True?
This aspect of the creature changes from naive to sophisticated as he continues to explore and experience the world.
(Hint: it is a literary technique.)
What is tone?
True or False:
Before meeting people, the Creature transitions from darkness to light in both an explicit sense by discovering things such as fire and in an implicit sense by learning about the world and increasing his knowledge.
What is True?