British Literature Final
All of the following are hymns written by Charles Wesley
"And Can It Be That I Should Gain." "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." "Soldiers of Christ, Arise."
Robert Burns was known as the
"Heaven-taught plowman."
Keats's first unquestionably great poem was
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."
Which hymn was written by William Cowper?
"There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
Which one of the following lines from Thomson's poem Winter is an example of periphrasis?
"Thither the household feathery people crowd"
Charles Wesley is credited with writing how many hymns?
9000 hymns
During his lifetime, Johnson was best known for
A Dictionary of the English Language.
Indicate the complete title of the satirical work by Dryden that stunned London because of its political impact.
Absalom and Achitophel
In Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes," who helps Porphyro carry out his plan?
Angela
At the end of his life, what was Johnson's basis for salvation?
Christ's death
The two crew members of the spectre ship are
Death and Life-in-Death.
Why was the Neoclassical period of England's history difficult for the common man?
England was in transition from an agricultural to an industrial society.
T OR F: "Walking with God" is addressed to Cowper's fellow believers.
False
T OR F: Swift stated that the purpose of Gulliver's Travels was to entertain.
False
Whom did God use as a catalyst for the Great Awakening of 1735-50?
George Whitefield
What was Johnson's method for collecting the words that would be part of the Dictionary?
He read prominent English writers from Sir Philip Sidney (1554) until his time, underlined the words to be included, and sent them to the transcribers to be transcribed and filed.
In The Shortest Way with Dissenters, how did Defoe use irony to show the absurdity of Tory punishments for nonconformity?
He recommended using harsh punishments when he really believed in not using them.
What is the thesis of "Heavenly Joy on Earth"?
Heavenly joy should begin before the Christian reaches heaven.
What is the truth in Johnson's statement "that a single house will show whatever is done or suffered in the world"?
Insight and instruction can be gained from the observation of those around you since human characteristics are universal.
What was the outgrowth of the Kingswood, Bristol, boarding school?
John Wesley's work as an author
Why was it so hard for Boswell to meet Johnson?
Johnson's lifestyle was irregular.
What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The publication of what work by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched the second great era of English song?
Lyrical Ballads
In An Essay on Criticism, how does Pope illustrate the importance of his belief that "the sound must seem an echo to the sense"?
Pope writes a series of lines that sound like the good and bad writing techniques he is humorously espousing and deriding.
In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, William Blake is espousing the tenet of which French philosopher?
Rousseau
Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated on a children's version of which writer's works?
Shakespeare
T OR F: According to John Wesley's Journal, he had a grasp of Greek and enjoyed secular as well as sacred reading.
TRUE
The most important poetic achievement of British romanticism is
The Prelude.
According to Wordsworth in Sonnet 1, what is the key difference between the child and the adult?
The child communes with nature directly.
What is ironic about Blake's inclusion of a graveyard in his "Garden of Love"?
The garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death.
Steele in Spectator 34 lets the reader know that he has a great respect for traditional religion and the clergy.
True
What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer?
Why does evil exist?
Who abandoned Cowper in his times of spiritual distress?
William Cowper(himself)
The authors of Lyrical Ballads are
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
According to Kant's philosophy of transcendentalism, which replaced deism, God is said to be within both nature and mankind and is known as what?
a World Spirit
What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Pope's "Against Idleness and Mischief"?
a bee
In "The Eve of St. Agnes," what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?
a storm
The poetic device common to both "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse" is
apostrophe.
The Byronic hero is characterized by all the following
arrogance and anguish. sullenness and solitude. self-will and rebellion.
Complete this statement made by John Wesley in 1739: "I look upon all the world ..."
as my parish.''
How did Addison and Steele point out the superiority of reason over emotion in "White's Chocolate House"?
by exaggerating the young man's preoccupation with the young lady
How did Crusoe compose his mind and keep his sanity on the island?
by resigning himself to the will of God
In Gulliver's Travels, how did Swift show the absurdity of England's conflicts?
by satirizing a very trivial issue and having the breaking of an egg result in extreme consequences
Identify the poetic device Byron uses to achieve a sense of finality and resignation to death in these lines from "On This Day": "Then look around, and choose thy ground,/And take thy rest."
caesura
In Robinson Crusoe, what did Crusoe miss most while on the island?
conversation
What trait of Johnson's overshadows his shortcomings?
conversational abilities
In "London," what does Blake associate with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse?
death and mourning, rather than joy and life
Which of Pope's characteristics did Dryden lack?
diligence
In the journal entry for February 3, 1770, Wesley attributes Rousseau's shortcomings to a
disdain for the Bible.
"Behold the Man" is unique in English hymnody because of what characteristic?
dramatic-allegorical narrative quality
The essays found in The Tatler and The Spectator are much like our present-day
editorials.
The cottagers in Goldsmith's The Deserted Village were given all of the following options after enclosure came to their land
emigrate to America. become a factory hand. stay in the village as a laborer.
Indicate the term used to describe John Locke's view of the world.
empiricism
What is the controlling imagery of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"?
explorers
Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of
happiness.
John Dryden has been called the "first of the moderns" because
he foresaw a new age of reasonableness and scientific progress.
Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points
human reason has limitations. intuition has some validity. the individual has value.
The eighteenth century became a great age of hymnody for all the following reasons
hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control. the neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn. Isaac Watts's great contributions to hymn writing influenced the growth of hymnody.
What was Defoe's most lasting contribution to the novel?
journalistic realism
all of the following absurdities is present in "Ozymandias"?
legs that support nothing an empire that is now only desert the highest part of the statue now as the lowest
Boswell was a dauntless hero worshiper who sought to
meet many famous people.
As a result of his prose, Coleridge is known as the father of
modern literary criticism.
Robert Burns can be best classified as a
nationalist poet.
The popularity of The Seasons by Thomson indicated a new demand for poems of
natural description and sentimental reflection.
Wordsworth credited what as being the major formative influence on his writing?
nature
Adam Smith's policy of laissez faire advocated what role by government?
noninterference in business
The primary mood of Lamb's essays is
nostalgic daydreaming.
Daniel Defoe wrote what was considered the first true_____ in English.
novel
Which of the following constitutes man's salvation, according to Blake?
obeying his imagination and feelings
Like the Review, The Tatler became a
periodical of commentary.
In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the lines "Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,/The short and simple annals of the poor" are an example of _____
personification
According to Coleridge, what is the immediate end of poetry?
pleasure
Blake's "London" condemns all the following institutions of society
religion. government. family.
Indicate the literary tool that can be defended by stating that its purpose is to upbraid and warn.
satire
An Essay on Man is a precursor to
secular humanism.
What poetic device governs the imagery in stanza 1 of "She Walks in Beauty Like the Night" by Lord Byron?
simile
Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by
society.
All of the following elements found in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard are romantic
solitary meditation. rural landscape. use of natural description to create a mood.
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the albatross brought about what directional change in the ship's course?
south to north
What simile does Wordsworth use to describe the daffodils in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?
stars
All of the following are associated in Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with mental suffering
stillness. heat. silence.
In Thomas Gray's Elegy, all of the following items are neoclassical elements
subject. intense moralization. poetic diction.
The influence of Wesleyanism dulled the ill effects of the industrial revolution by
teaching otherworldly values and compassion for the downtrodden and bringing an evangelical conscience to England.
Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield sharply disagree?
the Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement
"England in 1819" by Shelley was inspired by which historical event?
the Peterloo Massacre
Who was the least tolerable of the tenants who had lived in the house in Johnson's Rambler 161?
the author
What three main beliefs of Scripture did deists reject?
the deity of Christ Christ's death and bodily resurrection the miracles of Scripture
In Wordsworth's definition of the poetic process, what reflects the romantic dislike of control?
the depiction of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
What is the verse form of The Deserted Village?
the heroic couplet
England's domination of the seas by crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials helped advance which revolution?
the industrial revolution
Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer combines the wit of earlier comedy and
the morality of the current sentimental comedy.
Characteristics of romantic poetry include the following
the poet as the primary subject a highly individual perspective an awe-inspiring atmosphere
What is the primary subject of the romantic poem?
the poet himself
In "To a Mouse," the speaker says that man has to deal with the past, the present and the future, but the mouse is more fortunate because it deals with only one of these. Indicate which one.
the present
What theme or focus is Wordsworth's contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?
the redirection of the poet's attention to himself
In a series of pamphlets denouncing the exploitation of Ireland by Parliament, Swift suggested all of the following
the rejection of new copper coinage for Ireland. the boycott of English goods. an ironic solution to overpopulation and starvation in Ireland.
How can rationalism be defined?
the rule of reason in all areas of life
Section IV of "Ode to the West Wind" reveals Shelley's agreement with the romantic belief in
the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature.
What was the purpose of a young man's going on a "grand tour"?
to broaden his viewpoint by making it more cosmopolitan
What was the purpose of Swift's "A Modest Proposal?"
to get Parliament's attention concerning the means for relieving the ills of the Irish
