Romanticism

Romantics responded specifically to which of the following aspects of the Industrial Revolution?

• Children and the breakdown of the family
• Government’s lack of efficiency
• The industrial focus of the time and scientific writing
• The differences in the classes

The Romantics believed that people could improve their world-view by …

• focusing on the problems and working for a solution
• focusing on meditation and yoga
• focusing on beauty, emotion and imagination as a means of escape
• focusing on getting the right people elected to make change

Realists hoped to create a change in society by …

• exposing the realities of the working class and poor in order to create empathy for that group
• studying nature in the hopes of protecting the wilderness and a more rural lifestyle
• showing the reading public that the poor were lazy and inferior

“ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, Wordsworth uses the literary element of ____ to compare his delightful afternoon in nature to an aimless cloud.

• Rising action
• Memory
• Personification
• Simile

Which aspect of Realism is best shown by the following quote? “It’s very hard to clean the snow away, particular when it’s been on the ground some time. It’s awful cold and gives us chilblains on our feet.”

• London’s weather conditions
• details of character
• difficult working conditions
• difficult  living conditions

Which is most revealing about the way the poor in the streets were regarded by the public in London at the time? (how were poor people treated in London at this time?)

• “sister kept all my clothes . When I asked for ‘em, she said they was disposed of along with all of mother’s goods.”
• “One day he hit me.”
• “if Money’s found on us we have fourteen days in prison.”

In Oliver Twist, why does Dickens say that “The bowls never wanted washing; the boys polished them with their spoons until they shone again”?

• They would throw the bowls out at the end of the meal.
• The kids were so hungry they ate every bit in the bowl.
• The boys had to go on dish duty at the end of the meal.
• Their spoons had special scrubbers on them, so they did not have to wash them.

Why does Dickens point out that the cook master of the orphanage is “a fat, healthy man”?

• To show what the boys will look like once they’ve been there long enough.
• To contrast the good health of the adults with the poor health of the orphans
• To hint that he eats a lot of the gruel when he is supposed to serve it to the boys.
• To point out how much older than the boys he is in a polite manner

When did the Romantic Literary Movement appear?

• In the late 18th century
• In the late 17th century

What's the Poet's task?

• to show the poet how to understand his feelings
• to show men how to understand their feelings