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English Literature - From Defoe to Keats
English Literature - From Defoe to Keats
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1
Swift's "Gulliver's travels" is a very modern novel because
It offers a description of the British society
Criticizes the monarchy
It criticizes scientific speculations
It offers mulltile interpretations
2
After the killing of the Albatros, what does NOT happen to the crew?
The ship sits motionless
The mariner immediately repents and asks for forgiveness to the ghosts
The mariner is punished and he is unable to sleep and find rest
the ghosts of Life and Life in Death play dice
3
Coleridge's "Rime of the ancient mariner" is in form of
An epic poem
A sonnet
An ode
A ballad
4
Wordsworth writes the preface to the "Lyrical Ballads" in
1801
1800
1805
1789
5
18th century novels were meant to be read by the aristocracy.
True
False
6
According to Wordsworth, the act of recollecting in tranquillity is essential to write poetry.
True
False
7
In "Ode to a Grecian Urn" Keats does NOT
Describe the act of the sacrifice of the heifer.
Describe the impossibility of two lovers to rejoin.
State that art can be a refuge from time, fixing beauty and happiness.
Personify the urn.
8
In Coleridge's work, the wedding guest willingly decides to listen to the mariner's story
True
False
9
Byron's poetry uses conventional forms
True
False
10
Keat's poetry differs from Shelley and Byron's because it is
It uses classical forms
Based on direct personal experience
Focused on natural landscapes
It wants to be universal and eternal
11
According to Keats, there are two forms of beauty:
Physical and spiritual
Natural and sublime
Physical and natural
Natural and spiritual
12
Wordsworth's poetry is NOT focused on
Personal experiences
Abstract concepts
Nature
Rustic life
13
Keats's "negative capability" is
The ability of the poet of removing reason and use imagination
The ability of the poet of removing imagination and use reason
14
Pre-romantic poetry merges classical content with new stylistic forms.
True
False
15
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is divided in
five paragraphs
five tercets
five stanzas
five cantos
16
The byronic hero:
is overconfident about his role in life
is not able to experience deep feelings
Has a rigid moral code
is very charming and seductive
17
In the final passage, Childe Harolds states that:
He does not believe in the existence of goodness and happiness
He always felt as a member of society
He believes in the existence of pure virtues
He has followed the crown all his life
18
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is written in iambic tercets. The same verse used by
Petrarch
Dante
19
The final message in "Ode to the West Wind" is a message of
Hope
Disillusionment
Joy
Fear
20
During his voyages, Gullivers does not visit
The land of Brobdingnag
the land of Yahoouyhnhmnsya
The land of Lilliput
The isle of Laputa
21
Robinson Crusoe CANNOT be seen as
The prototype of a colonizer
A virtuous example
An example of aristocratic man
An example of the middle-class man
22
Wordsworth and Coleridge's poetry have one thing in common. What?
The theme of the supernatural
The stylistic forms
The prominence given to imagination
The concept of simple life
23
"Robinson Crusoe" was inspired by the real story of the mariner Alexander Selkirk.
False
True
24
In Shelley's ode, the West Wind is described as
Fierce and destructive
Rebel and freezing
Destroyer and preserver
Tamed and passive
25
The style used by D. Defoe in "Robinson Crusoe is
Lyrical
Imaginative
Satirical
Realistic
26
Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" has some classical elements. In particular,
the personification of an inanimate object (urn)
the use of contrasts: "heard melodies" VS "ditties of no tone"
the use of an ABAB rhyme at the beginning of each stanza
The theme of artistic beauty
27
Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is written in Spenserian stanzas, that is:
nine verses in iambic pentameter
eight verses in iambic pentameter + a 12-syllable iambic line
eight verses in iambic pentameter + a 10-syllable iambic line
nine 12-syllable iambic lines
28
The main idea in Shelley's philosophy is the one of
Fear of responsability
Unconditioned love
Freedom
Experiencing sheer happiness
29
Wordsworth uses
a complex language and style
a complex language and a simple style
a simple language and a complex style
a simple language and style
30
The final message in J. Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is that
Travelling too much can lead to madness
Science is leading us to a negative turning point
Horses are better than men
A utopian society is impossibile to achieve