Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?

Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?

A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helg England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helg the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

A. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
C. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
D. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason

Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?

Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?

A. the ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.
B. a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
C. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
D. an event that had little consequence to England

“O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

“O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.