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Restoration and 18th Century

The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?

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The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?

A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

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Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Woodsworth
D. Emily Dickinson

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

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Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
 

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

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What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?

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In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?

A. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
B. William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. John Keats’s “To Autumn”
D. all but C

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century

Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

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Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

A. a French revolutionary
B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

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English Literature Mcqs, Restoration and 18th Century