Romantic Era Wrap Up (For Groups)

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 the author of Frankenstein?

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

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

Romanticism placed an emphasis on "intuition," or feeling and instinct, over reason.

• True
• False

". . . 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

Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.

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

William Blake wrote about these opposing concepts a lot.

• a. love and hate
• b. war and peace
• c. science and religion
• d. innocence and experience

What is an "ode"?

• a poem of 14 lines that uses a formal rhyme scheme

• a poem that tells a story and uses a formal rhyme scheme

• a lyric poem that pays respect to a person or thing

• a poem arranged in quatrains with a rhyme scheme

Which of the following are the most famous lines from this poem?

• "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"

• "For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair"

• "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth"

• "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed"

The Romantic Era was at its peak during...

• The first half of the 19th Century (1800s)

• The late 1900s

• The end of the Renaissance

• The same time frame as the Enlightenment