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Unit 4: British Romanticism Unit Test Review
Unit 4: British Romanticism Unit Test Review
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1
Which of the following is not a theme of 'On My First Son' by Ben Jonson?
Renaissance Art
Life and death
Grief
Love
2
“The Chimney Sweeper” (the poem) can be seen as a commentary on what aspect of London culture:
Masonry
Chimney maintenance
Coal consumption
Child labor
3
The speaker praises the urn’s immortality because -
Its inertia and inability to evolve is admirable but unrealistic
Its artistic renditions of unrequited love promote a universal message
Its ability to project aesthetic joy brings exaltation to its onlookers
Its everlasting beauty is what is true and that is all one needs to know
4
Close together words with the same initial consonant sound are called
consonance
alliteration
assonance
allusion
5
"The Lamb," "The Tyger" and "The Chimney Sweep
Ben Jonson
John Keates
William Wordsworth
William Blake
6
What was critical to this poetry’s expression?
logic
emotion
analysis
all of these
7
Romantic poetry is often
filled with beautiful imagery
lyrical
a and b
a close copy of classical Greek poetry
8
The speaker tells the lover he will -
Need to play his pipe for an eternity in honor of Apollo
Never kiss his beloved because they are frozen in time
Never get married because his beloved is cheating
Need to celebrate his burning passion with a better song
9
How the writer
feels
about what he is written is called his
tone
mood
style
theme
10
How was nature seen and used in this poetry?
a and b
a place for meditation
a place of darkness and evil
a setting which offered solace from an artificial world
11
These poets
drew extensively from the styles of classical writers
attempted to copy the poetic style of the 17th century
revered the poetry of Jonathan Swift
revolutionized the theory and practice of poetry
12
"On My First Son"
Ben Jonson
John Keates
William Blake
William Wordsworth
13
These poets wrote from
what would please the government
strict rules of subject matter imposed on poets
personal inspiration
b and c
14
Who is the speaker in this poem?
The baby/kid
Mother
15
The poem is a contrast between the -
Sound and silence
Time and timelessness
All of the above
Youth and age
16
It is clear in the final stanza that the urn -
Has served its purpose and should now be put in a museum for all to enjoy
Has destroyed the speaker’s faith in ceramic pottery as an artistic medium
Has lost its vitality as is now a mere object for the speaker
Has evolved into a divine object to be revered through the ages
17
The Romantics believed in the importance of
all of these
national pride
social conformity
individualism
18
Why is 'On My First Son' by Ben Jonson an elegy?
It mourns a death
It rhymes
it is written with elegiac form and meter
It analyzes the meaning of life
19
This period’s writing is most closely associated with subjects about
love
nature
the monarchy
social problems
20
How do you know “My First Son” by Ben Jonson is written in formal couplets?
It is written in a formal style
It involves two people on a formal occasion
Each pair of lines includes pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables
Each pair of lines ends with a rhyme and end punctuation
21
The
reader’s emotional reaction
to a work is called its
style
tone
mood
atmosphere
22
In stanza four, the speaker says the little town will be -
Forever celebratory and festive because they know how to honor the gods
... quiet &desperate because the streets will be empty &no one will return
Forever wistful and nostalgic because they can never go back in time
Forever peaceful and serene because they live in a quaint village
23
What do you call the form in which the syllables alternate between unstressed and stressed in five pairs per line?
Trochaic hexameter
Iambic pentameter
Trochaic pentameter
Iambic hexameter
24
Frankenstein
William Wordsworth
William Blake
Mary Shelley
Ben Jonson
25
Which characteristic determines whether a poem is an epigram?
Form
Meter
Subject matter
Length
26
"Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ben Jonson
William Blake
John Keates
William Wordsworth
27
A reference to a famous person, event or mythology is called
personification
an allusion
hyperbole
a apostrophe
28
The figure of speech that says something is something else to create imagery is a
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile
29
Imagery
appeals to the senses
can be created by an adjective or a verb
is often a figure of speech
all of these
30
The tone of this ode can best be described as:
Part anguished despair; part factual recapitulation
Part narcissistic; part bewilderment
Part melancholy; part wonder and praise
Part existential; part divine wonderment
31
To what does the speaker compare the urn?
A historical artifact and bride of quietness
peaceful citadel and breathing artifact
A bride of quietness and sylvan historian
A sylvan historian and bold lover of music
32
Which statement is true? The urn serves as a component in describing the relationship between:
Romanticism and Naturalism
art and humanity
beauty and nature
prose and verse
33
What is at the core of this poetry?
imagination
extending on what was written in the 17th century
all of these
political revolt
34
The social problem(s) in England during this period included
England’s growing population crowding cities
lack of child labor laws
England’s diminishing population
a and b
35
"The Tables Turned"
John Keates
Mary Shelley
Ben Jonson
William Wordsworth
36
Why might the boys be in coffins?
Soot
Because they are chimney sweepers and might get sick and die
37
The way a writer writes is called his
theme
mood
tone
style
38
The depiction of abstract ideas through the use of characters and events is
allegory
allusion
apostrophe
personification
39
The Romantic poets were influenced by the
American Civil War
The French Revolution
War of the Roses
All of these
40
At its clearest, Ode on a Grecian Urn is about -
The metaphysical contemplation of nature, art, and love
The metaphysical contemplation of musical instruments, nature, & mythology
The metaphysical contemplation of fate, nature, and political corruption
The metaphysical contemplation of Greek versus Roman culture
41
The three major scenes depicted in the ode are:
A sacrifice; the goddess Athena; a nightingale
Men and maidens; a young musician; a sacrifice
Men and maidens; a group of harp players; a nymph
The Trojan War; a young musician; the Greek flag
42
"When my ____ died i was very young"
Mother
The baby/kid
43
The Romantic poets sought to create poetic freedom in response to
rigid class distinctions
all of these
England’s fear of revolution
England’s repressive laws
44
The Romantic period took place between
1650-1700
1700-1768
1800-1850
1854-1899
45
The “superior passion” depicted in stanza three is an example of which literary device -
Foreshadowing
Synecdoche
Alliteration
Irony