English Test 1140

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John Keats

"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Percy Shelley

"Ozymandias"

sonnet

"Ozymandias" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" are examples of this literary form

Lord Byron

"The Destruction of Sennacherib"

Percy Shelley

"To a Skylark"

familiar essay

A major prose innovation of the Romantic Period was the ____.

prose lyric

Another term for a familiar essay is _____.

octave and sestet

Fourteen-line sonnets have two major parts:

three

List the ____ critical decisions everyone must make: Accepting Jesus as your personal savior. Finding God's choice of marriage partner. Finding God's choice career.

human emotions

Reason was as important to neoclassicists as ______.

lyricisms

Romantic Period authors used ____ to make their writing musical and personal.

historical novel

Sir Walter Scott's major contribution to the Romantic Period

Romans 14:12

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

romantics

The Middles Ages were a great source of inspiration for ____.

familiar

The term ___ style refers to prose that is simple, natural, and straightforward.

Romantic Period

The years 1789-1832 were called the _____, which was an era of literary revolution.

poet laureate

William Wordsworth held this distinguished position

Wesleyan revivals

_____ directly influenced British government and quickened social reform.

Reform Bill of 1832

_____ was the high point of the British reform movement.

heroism

a leading theme of many of Lord Byron's work

William Hazlitt

a writer of essays along with Thomas de Quincy and Charles Lamb

profuse

abundant

summary

always has fewer words than the original passage or poem

affectation

behavior that is not natural

raven

black

bourn

brook

blithe

cheerful

Sir Walter Scott

contributed a great deal to the restoration of Scotland's national culture and literature

annihilate

destroy

pedantic

displaying one's knowledge more than is necessary

cataclysmic

eventful

sprite

fairy

sprightly

full of life

premonitory

giving warning beforehand

William Hazlitt

he introduced the term, familiar style

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

he wrote "Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everything. Nor a drop to drink."

Lord Byron

he wrote the beautiful sonnet that begins, "She walks in beauty, like the night"

Thomas Moore

he wrote the poem, "The Glory of God in Creation"

paraphrase

is an expanded version of the original passage or poem

John Keats

is known for the words, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

ballad

literary form of "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

fraught

loaded

fealty

loyalty

archaic

no longer in use in ordinary language

symmetry

order

quintessence

purest form of some quality

propriety

quality of being proper

culminate

reaching climax

summary

restates only the main idea of a passage or poem

paraphrase

retains the author's sequence of ideas

paraphrase

retains, in alternate words, all of the author's ideas

allusion

slight of incidental mention of something

demesne

territory

ballad

the literary form of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

William Wordsworth

the poet who wrote the famous poem about his experience with daffodils

pensive

thinking

rectitude

uprightness

ambrosial

very fragrant

vista

view

sallow

willow

William Blake

wrote the poem entitle "The Tiger"

Percy Shelley

wrote the poem with the words, "Bird though never wert,"


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