“The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence
This is how the narrator became a chimney sweeper...
What is his father sold him at an early age?
This much time has passed since the speaker's last visit to Tintern Abbey
What is 5 years?
The Albatross is characterized as _____.
What is a good omen?
Shelley's Poem, The Mask of Anarchy, was written in response to this historically significant event
What is the Peterloo Massacre?
Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse?
Tom Dacre is compared to _____ in the poem.
What is a lamb?
The family member Wordsworth refers to in the poem as 'thou my dearest Friend... My dear, dear Friend'
Who is his sister, Dorothy?
After the mariner shoots the albatross, it symbolizes this
What is the burden of sin?
The form of The Mask of Anarchy
What is a ballad?
Characterized by the exploration of the relationship between humans and nature as well as romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life
What is Pastoral Poetry?
Blake offers a social commentary on this practice in "The Chimney Sweeper"
What is child labor?
This soothes Wordsworth when he finds himself overwhelmed "in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din / Of towns and cities" or "in hours of weariness"
What is the memory of Wordsworth's previous visit to Tintern Abbey?
This Christian practice/tenet is at work throughout The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
What is redemption?
The motivation behind Shelley's poem is to restore this aspect of the social order
What is individual freedom?
The act of giving human qualities to non-human things
What is Personification?
In the quote "naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind," naked and white is symbolic of...
What are innocence and purity?
The poem is framed as a prayer made to this being to protect Dorothy and guide her
What is Nature?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is also this type of literature, which uses the sublime and focuses on creating feelings of terror and suspense in the reader
What is Gothic Literature?
Shelley encourages this type of protest in the poem
What is non-violent resistance?
A line of poetry that carries an idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause
What is Enjambment?
“My father sold me while yet my tongue,/ Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep,/ So your chimneys I sweep & in ____ I sleep” (12).
What is soot?
Although Wordsworth focuses on the natural scenery and physical stimuli, this overarching theme represents "Tintern Abbey" as a whole
What is Memory?
The major elements of Romanticism found in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are...
What are the supernatural and the imagination?
As the poem progresses, the narrator meets "Murder on the way— / He had a mask like Castlereagh... Next came Fraud, and he had on, / Like Eldon, an ermined gown... Like Sidmouth, next, Hypocrisy / On a crocodile rode by" - this literary technique is being used in these lines specifically
What is personification?
An implied comparison between essentially unlike things (one that does not use comparison words)
What is a Metaphor?