British Literature Test 8

Idealism

all knowledge is in some way a creation of the individual mind because people can be sure of only their own perceptions

Deism

separate and absent from creation

Transcendentalism

within nature and mankind

Progressivism

the belief that human society can be made better and better through reform

Primitivism

human misery is caused by society, so man needs to go back to nature to be happy

Congress of Vienna

What was the convening of nations after the wars called

Corn laws

What limited grain imports and increased the cost of food at a time when average citizens were already struggling financially

Reform Act of 1832

Before what act was no more than three percent of the male population able to vote

Poetry

What genre dominated Romantic literature

Expansion of the vote and easing of labor inequities

What were the two major legal reforms of the era

Liberals and Conservatives

What were the 2 political parties

Dialect

the manner of speech - diction, grammar, and pronunciation - characteristic of a certain area or class (in Burn’s case, rural Scotland)

Principles of Geology and On the Origin of the Species

What works helped lead to the current theories of evolution

Novel

What was the most important genre during the Victorian Era

Images and theme

What two things does he use in his songs/poems to convey an underlying meaning to the words

William Blake

poetry considered among the most imaginative in English literature

Symbol

a person, place, or thing that represents something else in addition to itself

Sensory details

details that appeal to the five senses

Dualism

the idea that good versus evil is a timeless universal combat and both sides are necessary

Principles of Geology and On the Origin of the Species

What works helped lead to the current theories of evolution

Novel

What was the most important genre during the Victorian Era

Images and theme

What two things does he use in his songs/poems to convey an underlying meaning to the words

1794

What year did Blake write London

Shelly

author of Frankenstein

Logos

predicts the problems that will result from the inadequate conception of women’s natures

Ethos

appeals to the authority of scripture in referencing the equality of all mankind

Pathos

uses sarcasm in her arguments (i.e. “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures)

Jane Austen

Wrote timeless novels that transcend their settings through their keen observation of human character and social mores

DIalogue

conversations between characters

Sympathetic Characters

those with whom the reader identifies or for whom the reader ahs favorable feelings

Unsympathetic Characters

ones with whom the reader cannot identify or for whom the reader has strong feelings of dislike

Foil Characters

characters used to highlight another’s opposing traits in connection to the books themes

Repartee

besting another’s remark or turning it to one’s own advantage in a contest of wits

sublime

a momentary emotional experience in which readers transcend everyday living and briefly grasp ultimates of beauty, horror, time, or grandeur

William Wordsworth

published a collection of poems Lyrical Ballads in 1798, beginning the Romantic Era of literature

Enjambment

a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next

Casura

a pause in the middle of ap poetic line, usually indicated by punctuation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Exerted a strong influence on English literary criticism and philosophy

Onomatopoeia

the use of words that imitate the sounds being described

Internal Rhyme

rhymes within a line

Assonance

the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables

Dynamic Character

a character who changes internally

Static Character

a character who does not change

Frankenstein

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write

argumentation

Wollstonecraft framed her essay in the neoclassical style based on what

Mary WollstoneCraft

Which writer was a radical who wrote political texts

Jane Austen

Which author wrote novels about relationships and social classes

The mouse

What poem talks about the unpredictability of life

House

What does he use in the mouse about life being unpredictable

Yes

Did he feel sympathetic for the mouse

Rose

What is the rose symbolic of

Timeless

What does he express about his love

William Blake

What author believed in dualism

Lamb and the tiger

What explains dualism

Innocence

What does he frame the lamb as

Christ

What biblical figure is tied to the Lamb

No

According to the tiger, did God create evil

Good and evil

What has to be together according to the tiger

Marriage, government, and church

In his poem London what are the 3 institutions criticized

Corruption of religion

What does he criticize about the church

Government

What institution does he criticize when talking about blood

1794

What year did he publish in London

Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

What are the 3 rhetorical appeals

Ethos

Which of the rhetorical appeals referenced scripture

Pathos

What did she use for sarcasm

Women need to be educated

What’s the main point of her essay

Voting, education, and vocation

What are the 3 areas of broad feminism

Logos

What was used for the negative results of not educating women

Marriage and money

What 2 themes are talked about in Pride and prejudice

Sympathetic

What is a character who has favorable feelings

Unsympathetic

What is a character who has unfavorable feelings

Human imagination

What did Romantics insist on

Individual

What does Romantic sought to universalize human behavior by elevating the unique needs and perceptions of what

Distant

What did romantics frequently employ

Ballads, odes, sonnets, and blank verse

What compositions did the romantics used

1798

What year was the collection of poems Lyrical Ballads published

Lord Byron

Achieved fame with his semi-autobiographical narrative poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Spenserian Stanza

consists of nine lines, the first eight in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc

Percy Shelley

Poetry depicts the individual’s struggle against social oppression

Ode

a long lyric poem that is elevated in style, generally serious in theme, and structured with a complex stanza

Terza Rima

a verse form i which three-line stanzas (tercets) interlock in the following rhyme pattern - aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on

Shelly

regarded his poetry as an instrument of revolution and reform that could help lead to a golden era of peace and freedom

Creatures

What are the slimy things he refers to as

Yes

Does the wedding guest learn the lesson

Byronic hero

What was Byron’s most influential literary contribution

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Byron achieved fame with what narrative poem

Sublime

Byron sought to inspire a sense of what

Prometheus Unbound

What was Shelley’s masterpiece

1820

What year was Prometheus Unbound published

John Keats

produced some of the finest lyric poetry ever written in English

Euphony

agreeable sounds, especially in the phonetic quality of words

Cacophony

jarring, discordant sounds

Aestheticism

devotion to beauty (and therefore to art) as the highest human concern

Imagination

Romantics used what to view the world

Individual

Romantics elevated the needs of the what

Time and place

What are the 2 ways a romantic can achieve distance

Society

What romantics were corrupt

Blank verse

What verse did romantics like to write in

Wordsworth

Who is the leader of the romantic movement

Lyrical ballads

What did Wordsworth publish