Romanticism Quiz 76 (20 MCQs)

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1. In "The Chambered Nautilus, " the poet develops an extended metaphor comparing the empty shell to
2. Romantic artists drew inspiration from the monuments of ancient Greece and Roman.
3. What are the three camps of Transcendentalism?
4. What does the letter-writer want, that he's never had before, based on letter #2?
5. Which of the following is largely identified with the artistic movement known as romanticism?
6. When the narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character, it is called:
7. These writers often wrote satiric essays poking fun at society.
8. Gothic literature also focused on the mysterious, the haunted, and the .....
9. Why does Dickens point out that the cook master of the orphanage is "a fat, healthy man" ?
10. Best known for demonstrating scenes from the life of Frederick the Great.
11. Henry David Thoreau's essay "On Civil Disobedience" urged Americans to do what?
12. 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."
13. Which famous American author was NOT one of the Fireside Poets?
14. Which of the following is a key source of inspiration in English Romanticism?
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Describing the complete destruction of the world.
17. According to Wordsworth, poetry must focus on the supernatural and the influence of memory on society
18. What time does the Raven take place?
19. Match the following characteristic to its appropriate age.City life corrupts people
20. What war took place?