How Frankenstein was created

As a result of a ghost story competition at Lake Geneva

Romanticism is characterised by these keywords

Emotion, nature, children, spontaneity.

The time period is characterised by these keywords

urbanisation, child labour, industrialisation, poverty

This is how poetry is made, according to Wordsworth

powerful emotions recollected in tranquility

These central romantic ideals were passed on to and shared with artists in the 1960s

Spontaneity, feeling, children, back to nature

These are standard elements in a piece of gothic fiction

Innocent virgins, villains, werewolves, haunted houses.

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How Frankenstein was created
As a result of a ghost story competition at Lake Garda
After a bet between the poet Lord Byron and the Shelleys
During a rainy day picnic by Lake Geneva
As a result of a ghost story competition at Lake Geneva
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The "painter of light" who was both a romantic painter but used impressionist techniques
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Frederick James Turner
J.M.W. Turner
3
Romanticism is characterised by these keywords
Emotion, nature, children, spontaneity.
Children, reason, God
Nature, cities, reason
Reason, science, individualism
4
Wordsworth wrote about these flowers, inspired by thoughts of heaven and stars.
Daffodils
Roses
Tulips
5
Poet - and vegetarian, atheist and socialist - who wrote "Ozymandias"
William Wordsworth
William Blake
William Turner
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The time period is characterised by these keywords
Women get the vote, child labour, industrialisation
urbanisation, child labour, industrialisation, poverty
poverty, labour reforms, school for all children
Rapid growth, redistribution of wealth, labour reforms
7
Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to this period
Modernism
The Enlightenment
The renaissance
The Middle Ages
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Percy Bysshe Shelley's second mother-in-law, Mary Wollstonecraft, was famous for this
Being the mother of Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein
Being a suffragette
Writing Frankenstein
Marrying her husband, a famous philosopher
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This is how poetry is made, according to Wordsworth
Tranquil experiences written down spontaneously
Spontaneous experiences recollected in solitude
Spontaneous passions recollected in soltude
powerful emotions recollected in tranquility
10
These central romantic ideals were passed on to and shared with artists in the 1960s
Free love, nature and music
Scientific progress, individualism and feelings
Closeness with God and nature
Spontaneity, feeling, children, back to nature
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The tendency of the period that many people moved from the countryside to the cities
industrialisation
Enlightenment
modernisation
Urbanisation
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These are standard elements in a piece of gothic fiction
Innocent virgins, villains, werewolves, haunted houses.
Beautiful country setting, innocent children, strict nannies
A mad scientist, gargoyles and innocent maidens.
Innocent children and animals, monsters, and castles

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