Post Test: Romantic Era
Identify the meanings of the bolded words in the passage based on the context. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (excerpt) I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was the most gratifying consummation of my tolls. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result. 1. receptacle: 2. consummation: 3. obliterated:
1. container 2. completion 3. destroyed
In "Kubla Khan," Coleridge describes the creation and destruction of Kubla Khan's palace in the _____1_____ location of Xanadu, which gives the poem a ____2____ quality. Through the ___3____ character of Kubla Khan, Coleridge uses the wild image of the Mongols to suggest that Kubla Khan is insane, implying that all creative actions are the acts of _____4____ men. The last lines bring the poem to a ___5_____ close. Flashing eyes evoke the image of passionate creativity. By talking about "holy dread," Coleridge suggests that creation is both __6___ and demonic.
1. exotic 2. dreamlike 3. historical 4. mad 5. climactic 6. sacred
"The World Is Too Much with Us" is a Petrarchan sonnet written by William Wordsworth. Its first eight lines (the octet) pose a question or problem, and its last six lines (the sestet) give a response or solution. The problem in this sonnet's octet is that humanity has lost its respect for and connection with nature. In the sestet, how does Wordsworth propose to address this problem? The World Is Too Much with Us The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!1This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune;It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;So might I, standing on this pleasant lea2,Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of Proteus3 rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton4 blow his wreathed horn. 1 favor2 meadow3 Greek sea -god who could change his appearance at will4 Greek sea -god with the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish
He wishes that he had been born a pagan so that he would have learned a different way of seeing nature.
Which two sets of lines in William Wordsworth's poem reflect the poet's view that nature's beauty can live on in our memories and continue to delight us even after our experience with it has passed? I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed—and gazed—but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.
In vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.
Which of the following is a comparison that this poem makes? Music, When Soft Voices Die (To--) by Percy Bysshe Shelley Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory.--Odors, when sweet violets sicken,Live within the sense they quicken.-- Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heaped for the beloved's bed--And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,Love itself shall slumber on.
It compares the beloved's thoughts to rose leaves that live longer than the rose itself.
What is the effect of the choice of frozen landscapes such as the North Pole and the Swiss Alps as settings in Frankenstein?
It reminds readers of the loneliness and absolute desolation of the characters.
What inference can be drawn in this excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.
Mr. Bennet's property cannot pass to his daughters because the law dictates that a male descendant must inherit it.
Which two phrases in this excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats suggest that the urn represents everlasting art? O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with bredeOf marble men and maidens overwrought,With forest branches and the trodden weed;Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold pastoral!When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe,Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity: When old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe.
In the novel Frankenstein, what is the significance of Walton's letters to his sister at the beginning of the narrative?
Walton's letters speak of his thirst for knowledge and his loneliness, and they introduce the novel's main themes.
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,(excerpt from "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
a person's face
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?(excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats)
a side of the body
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" most reflects which romantic ideal?
belief in the supernatural
"They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thundersof heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows"
dangerous knowledge
"I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the liveembers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain."
deceptive appearances
In Jane Austen's time, the law dictated that a man's property was inherited by his closest male heir instead of by the women in his family. What was this law known as?
entailment
"If I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection.I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for thecommunication of feeling."
isolation
What aspect of nature does the star represent in the poem? Bright Star by John Keats Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen maskOf snow upon the mountains and the moors--No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
its constancy in contrast to the rapid changes the speaker undergoes
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;(excerpt from "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron)
regions with relation to their weather patterns
"From that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery."
revenge
