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1798-1832
What are the years of the Romantic Period?
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Famous for his dark heroes who were actually anti-heroes with a larger than life persona.
Who is Lord Byron?
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“The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,” is an example of this device.
What is internal rhyme?
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In "The Lamb," the Lamb is a symbol of this.
What is innocence?
100
In "Ozymandias," that fact that the traveler sees only sand around the pedestal is this.
What is "ironic"?
200
Brought about the end of the Romantic Period.
What is parliamentary reform?
200
Addicted to laudunum.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
200
“Fear at my heart, as at a cup.” Is an example of this device.
What is a simile?
200
In "When I Have Fears," the speaker's fears cause him to do this.
What is attempt to forget love and fame?
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In The World Is Too Much with Us, the speaker believes that worldly strivings are this.
What is a waste of our talents and energy?
300
Three poets of the latter half of the Romantic periods-- lives were short and somewhat reckless.
Who are Shelley, Byron, and Keats?
300
A visual artist as well as a poet.
Who is William Blake?
300
"Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze." Is an example of this device.
What is assonance?
300
In "She Walks in Beauty," the speaker thinks that the woman's beauty reflects this.
What is her inner beauty?
300
From "The Destruction of Sennacherib," the Angel of Death spreads its wings over this.
What is the the Assyrian army?
400
Three historical events that characterized the Romantic period.
What is French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Laissez Faire economic policy.
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Poetry is characterized by sensual imagery, especially in his Odes.
Who is John Keats?
400
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;"
What is alliteration?
400
In "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," the occasion for the poem is Lucy's...
What is death?
400
In "She Walks in Beauty," the woman does nothing to express...
What is her true character?
500
Characteristics of the Romantic Era
What is simplistic and childlike over Urban, emotions over reason, natural over artificial, individual over society, and imaginative over logical.
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Considered the nature poet.
Who is William Wordsworth?
500
"And all was still, save that the hill/ Was telling of the sound." is an example of this device.
What is personification?
500
In "The Destruction of Sennacherib," the army is felled by this.
What is "illness"?
500
In "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," Lucy can best be described as this.
What is "ordinary"?