BJU British Literature Sem. 2 p. 1

a short narrative of interesting or amusing incidents

The following excerpt from Blake’s “The Lamb” illustrates what syntactical device? “He is meek and he is mild.”

What book embodied the most culturally significant result of interest in natural science?

Characteristics of romantic poetry include which of the following?

The eighteenth century became a great age of hymnody for all the following reasons except

What group of religious dissenters sought to reform the Anglican Church from within?

What is the main difference between Wesley's and Watt's works?

The wares of which city are the most prominent and popular at Vanity Fair?

Beyond his work with poetry, what genre of literature is Coleridge best known for?

descriptions appealing concretely to the five senses

The third quatrain of Keat’s sonnet, “When I have fears,” expresses his fear of ending a love relationship.

brief verbal expressions that amuse listeners through clever but unexpected turns of phrase or connections between ideas

the manner of speech—diction, grammar, and pronunciation—characteristic of a certain area or class

conversations between characters

rhymes within a line

Burns makes use of what literary device in the following quote from “To a Mouse”? “Wi’ bickerin brattle”

a perspective in which the narrator refers to himself or herself as I throughout

Rousseau, the promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by

The central motif of Pilgrim's Progress compares...

a character for whom the reader has favorable feelings

In Pilgrim's Progress, the narrator presents the story as something that...

What device does Blake use? “In every cry of every man/In every infant’s cry of fear/In every voice, in every ban/..."

What are the three characteristics of Romanticism

What poem was a major turning point in romantic poetry because of its focus on psychological development of its author?

What writer of this period perfected and popularized the informal essay?

a perspective in which the narrator stands outside the story and refers to the characters as he, she, or they

a reference within a work of literature to something outside it, usually history or another piece of literature

What is the theme of Elegy?

The “she” of Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” is considered beautiful more for her physical beauty than for her character

What are the two events at which Bunyan records Christian’s singing in this excerpt of The Pilgrim’s Progress?

All are romantic and present in Elegy except what element?

Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul & gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason

Blake’s “London” condemns all the following institutions of society except

Which one of the following is not a way that Austen indirectly develops Bingley’s character?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in what poetic form?

Complete this famous line from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. “I love not Man the less, but ______ more”

Which word carries the strongest connotative meaning?

Being a romantic, Gray loosely followed poetic form in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

What poetic device governs the imagery in this line? “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"

Blake’s “London” celebrates London as a burgeoning metropolis.

a question asked, not to receive an answer, but to achieve an effect

the practice of establishing criteria for and engaging in the analysis of, interpretation of, and evaluation of works

What sort of imagery dominates Wordsworth’s poetry?

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how does the mariner kill the albatross?

besting another’s remark or turning it to one’s own advantage in a contest of wits

Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that

the repetition of terminal (more rarely, internal) consonant sounds in words

the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby stressed syllables

a story with both a literal and an implied level of meaning

Bunyan was imprisoned as a consequence of what Act?

What literary device is evident in the excerpt? “O my luv’s like the melodie/ That's sweetly play'd in tune."

What literary device is evident? “. . .rather say / With warmer love—oh! with far deeper zeal / Of holier love . . .”

In A Vindication, Wollstonecraft denies that women are inherently weaker than men physically.

The romantic period advocated a style with emphasis on emotions, subjective experience, and natural, free-flowing style

How did Oroonoko respond when captured and chained in the ship?

What is the rhyme scheme for Our God, Our Help in Ages Past: blood/ cares/ flood/ years

What was the preeminent genre of Victorian literature?

The publication of what work launched the fullest flowering of romantic poetry?

the repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of lines or grammatical units

In Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, all of the following items are neoclassical traits except

the emphasis on emotion, reacting against reason, sympathizing with others, and appreciating beauty

What characteristic does not describe works of midcentury poets focused on solitary meditation?

In The Pilgrim’s Progress, even Christian’s family members mock his flight from home.

In Pride and Prejudice,which of Lizzy’s characteristics does Mr. Bennet distinguish as setting her apart from her sister

In moving toward romanticism, most key writers fully rejected neoclassical principles.

a nonfiction account of the life events of a real person other than the author

pleasant sounds, especially in the phonetic quality of words

an appeal to logic and reason

a lyric poem of praise or thanksgiving to God meant to be sung

a character for whom the reader has strong feelings of dislike

Burns’s “To a Mouse” uses which of the following to communicate his perspective on man’s hopes and, his nationalism?

In The Lamb & The Tyger, it's clear Blake consistently sought in both poems to present God as a loving, gracious creator

Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argues that in both men and women, true virtue is preceded by

In Oroonoko, the general killed by an arrow striking his eye voluntarily died in Oroonoko’s place.

The Byronic hero is characterized by all of the following except

In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats lists all of the following that will not fade except

In A Vindication, what does Wollstonecraft call for?

an appeal to emotions

an autobiographical account of the author’s experience as a slave

Philosophical idealism promotes which of the following concepts?

“Ode to the West Wind” uses which poetic form?

what appeal does Wilberforce discourage: I wish exceedingly to guard both myself from any subject with passion

an appeal to moral or intellectual authority

Byron resurrected Spenser’s stanza form, Spenserian stanza, characterized by which of the following?

What group of religious dissenters did Bunyan belong to?

Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” exhibits what literary device? “And I will luve thee still, my dear/ Till a' the seas gang dry

At what location in Pilgrim's Progress does Bunyan incorporate a biblical allusion to Christ's temptation by Satan?

Wilberforce advocated for the abolition of what?

a unifying, recurring element throughout a work or across many artistic works

Which genre is characterized by exaltations or meditations in which the speaker works through a problem in his mind?

Gray’s tone in “Elegy” is biblical in its valuing of all life.

What is the official name of the midcentury poets of solitary meditation?

Which is a characteristic of the neoclassical writing style?

a character with extreme emotional capabilities and tendencies

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Mariner shoots the albatross because it ate the food the starving sailors needed

In The Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian leaves Vanity Fair unaccompanied.

What is the rhyme scheme for Behold the Man: pray/ one/ away/ Son/ blood/ God

a verse form with an interlocking nature that produces a continuous flow