What was Romanticism a reaction of?

Lack of imagination and feelings in the Enlightenment, Reason, cold research, moderation and order

What lead to the break between the younger and the older Romantics?

The older became more conservative and less radical

Love and ideal og almost frighteningly beautiful nature

Why did William Wordsworth go from being a liberal Romantic to a conservative?

He reacted to the violence used in the French revolution

What was the ideal of Romanticism?

Innocence of children and ordinary country people

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1
Where did Sir Walter Scott come from?
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
England
2
What was Romanticism a reaction of?
Lack of imagination and feelings in the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
Reason, cold research, moderation and order
Realism
3
What happened in 1832?
Sir Walter Scott was born
The Industrial Revolution
Jane Austen died
Sir Walter Scott died
4
Who is one of the most popular English writers of all time?
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Jane Bennett
Anne Bronte
5
What lead to the break between the younger and the older Romantics?
The older became more conservative and less radical
The older criticized the writings of the younger
The younger were too violent
The younger disliked the writings of the older
6
What went on in society in this period?
Worker rebellions
Wars
Revolutions
Education for women
7
What is the sublime?
Love and ideal og almost frighteningly beautiful nature
The perfect, tamed nature
A genre for writing about nature
A citrus fruit
8
Why did William Wordsworth go from being a liberal Romantic to a conservative?
His wife was killed by a French revolutionary
He reacted to the violence used in the French revolution
He became sick of the ideals of Romanticism
He married the daughter of a Conservative politician
9
What is Sir Walter Scott's most famous work?
Ivanhoe
Ben Hur
The Lady of the Lake
The Lady of Shalott
10
Who is the master of mystery and the macabre?
Edgar Allan Poe
Bret Easton Ellis
Emily Bronte
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11
What is Austen's most famous novel?
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
12
When was the English Romanticism (ish)?
1750-1850
1730-1898
1800-1830
1798-1830
13
What happened in 1798?
Ivanhoe was published
The French Revolution
The American Revolution
Lyrical Ballads was published
14
What can Frankenstein be seen as?
A monster
Technophobia
A warning against technology
A commentary on the difficulties of being a misfit
15
What are important techniques in Austen's writing?
Sarcasm and irony
Dead metaphors
Alliteration
In medias res
16
What was the ideal of Romanticism?
Innocence of children and ordinary country people
The perfect country life
Get rich or die trying
Peace and Love
17
What became an attraction in the Romantic period?
the Supernatural
Democracy
Romance
Revolutions

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