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Features and Contexts of the Romantic Movement

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Romantic movement took place during which time period?

a)

1500s-1600s

b)

The Victorian Era

c)

Late 1700s-1800s

d)

The Enlightenment

2.

Which of the following events did NOT influence the Romantic poets

a)

The Industrial Revolution

b)

The French and American Revolutions

c)

World War I

d)

The Napoleonic Wars

3.

True or False: the Romantics favoured reason over emotion

a)

True

b)

False

4.

True or False: Romantics favoured individualism over collectivism

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Romantic poetry

a)

Praising nature

b)

Idealism

c)

Emotive language

d)

Praising technology

e)

Political activism

6.

Who among the following is NOT a Romantic writer?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Mary Shelley

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Lord Byron

e)

William Blake

7.

The Romantics believed that nature inspires awe beyond reason and description. They called this phenomenon:

a)

the divine

b)

God's gifts

c)

pastoralism

d)

the sublime

8.

Glorifying the past or thinking about it fondly is known as

a)

Melancholy

b)

Nostalgia

c)

Pastism

d)

Yearning

e)

Presentism

9.

Having strong morals and lofty ideas about how to live or govern is known as

a)

Idealism

b)

Fanaticism

c)

Naivety

d)

Realism

e)

Utopianism

10.

Creating vivid images with words that appeal to the senses is called

a)

Imagery

b)

Imagination

c)

Inspiration

d)

Intuition

11.

The origin of the term 'Romanticism' comes from

a)

Medieval 'romance' tradition

b)

Term for all Latin languages

c)

Romantic love

d)

French word for 'novel'

e)

Greco-Roman traditions