Romanticism Quiz 24 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which aspect of Realism is best shown by the following quote? "It's very hard to clean the snow away, particular when it's been on the ground some time. It's awful cold and gives us chilblains on our feet."
2. Which group of Romantic writers focused on the darker side of human nature and the supernatural?
3. Characteristic Feature:Early Skyscrapers
4. What invention was one of the most important in the Industrial Revolution?
5. What LITERARY DEVICE is here? "Henry was a lion on the battlefield."
6. Which piece is an example of gothic or dark romanticism?
7. Which of the following ideas is NOT a characteristic of romanticism?
8. Romanticism emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the .....
9. Downplays rules, authority, and traditions
10. What is a trait of the speaker in "Woman of the Nineteenth Century" is viewed as a fault in other women of the time?
11. Masculine symbol in Anne Bradstreet's poem "To Her Husband ..... "
12. The Romantic era was during .....
13. The music for this healthy physical exercise is one of the most important instrumental repertoires.
14. The main pillars of Romanticism are
15. Fireside Poets focused on important social issues like:
16. Which is not a characteristic of Romanticisim?
17. The idee fixe is also known as the
18. What is the "great error in Rip's" character?
19. The raven is a symbol of .....
20. Characteristic Features:Decorated with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns.
21. A reference within a work of literature to something outside of it:
22. In "The Fall of The House of Usher, " Roderick and Madeline are
23. True or false. Romanticism started in the 17th century.
24. Who was not a Gothic writer?
25. What did transcendentalists emphasize in order to connect with God and the universe?
26. The following line is an example of alliteration.
27. How much of the total wealth did the European elites possess?
28. "TMBV": "The Minister's Black Veil" is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of setting
29. What feeling does Irving want to arouse with the setting of his story "The Devil and Tom Walker?"
30. The first cat's name was:
31. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition.
32. According to the text, the journey in American Romantic literature can best be characterized as
33. The romantic authors like Emerson, Bryant, and Thoreau would have rejected the idea of "manifest destiny" and found the results of it immoral.
34. Why does Tom think the figure in the forest is the devil?
35. To which of these sources are you more likely to look for solutions to your life's problems?
36. Hector Beriloz was a Romantic
37. In "The Chambered Nautilus, " the poet develops an extended metaphor comparing the empty shell to
38. Romantic artists drew inspiration from the monuments of ancient Greece and Roman.
39. What are the three camps of Transcendentalism?
40. What does the letter-writer want, that he's never had before, based on letter #2?
41. Which of the following is largely identified with the artistic movement known as romanticism?
42. When the narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character, it is called:
43. These writers often wrote satiric essays poking fun at society.
44. Gothic literature also focused on the mysterious, the haunted, and the .....
45. Why does Dickens point out that the cook master of the orphanage is "a fat, healthy man" ?
46. Best known for demonstrating scenes from the life of Frederick the Great.
47. Henry David Thoreau's essay "On Civil Disobedience" urged Americans to do what?
48. Which element of absence is present in the following quote? "I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture ..... a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees ..... very gradually ..... I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
49. Which famous American author was NOT one of the Fireside Poets?
50. Which of the following is a key source of inspiration in English Romanticism?
51. Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. Describing the complete destruction of the world.
53. According to Wordsworth, poetry must focus on the supernatural and the influence of memory on society
54. What time does the Raven take place?
55. Match the following characteristic to its appropriate age.City life corrupts people
56. What war took place?
57. "She visits my grave when the night winds wail" This is an example of:
58. What were the main characteristics of Transcendentalism?
59. Which of the following works is NOT a Romantic-era piece of literature?
60. Tom Walker's wife is best described as