Romantic Period

Which is NOT characteristic of the Romantic period?

• a. a return to nature
• b. appreciation of the individual
• c. love of philosophy
• d. turning against industrialization

Which poet married Mary Shelley?

• a. Lord Byron
• b. John Keats
• c. William Wordsworth
• d. Percy Shelley

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a . . .

• a. lyrical ballad
• b. a sonnet
• c. a long poem about the desert
• d. a treatise

How is the Romantic period a lot like the time period we are living in?

• a. We are supporting a French Revolution.
• b. We celebrate the voices of individuals.
• c. They had electricity.
• d. Gothic literature is new.

Robert Burns and Joanna Baillie wrote in which dialect?

• a. Dutch
• b. Irish
• c. Scottish
• d. Anglo-Saxon

". . . the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions; it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquility . . ." is William Wordsworth's definition of:

• a. the Romantic Period

• b. Shakespeare's sonnets

• c. poetry

• d. the French Revolution

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.9A

Who are the two poets who collaborated on "The Lyrical Ballads"?

• a. William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
• b. Shakespeare and Samuel Coleridge
• c. Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
• d. The Lake Poets

Which is an example of assonance?

• a. Come back, Mr. Quack Quack
• b. Little lamb, little lamb
• c. Go mow Joe Thrower's lawn before we close.
• d. Butter, jam, or chutney?

Who made up the Byronic Hero?

• a. John Keats
• b. Lord Byron
• c. Joanna Baillie
• d. Yosa Buson

Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.

• a. sentiment and idealistic passion
• b. epics
• c. Geoffrey Chaucer
• d. tales of chivalry