Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?

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1. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?

   A. Maria Edgeworth
   B. Sir Walter Scott
   C. Thomas De Quincey
   D. Jane Austen

2. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

   A. Sociolinguistics
   B. Psycholinguisctics
   C. Biolinguistics
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

3. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?

   A. Charles Lamb
   B. Jane Austen
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Oliver Goldsmith

4. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?

   A. snide indifference
   B. biblical reverence
   C. condemning censure
   D. satirical derision

5. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?

   A. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes
   B. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers
   C. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy
   D. A and C only

6. Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

   A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
   B. English historians half a century after the period ended
   C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
   D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
    

7. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

   A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire
   B. English historians half a century after the period ended
   C. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
   D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

8. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

   A. wit
   B. sprezzatura
   C. naturalism
   D. gusto

9. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?

   A. wit
   B. sprezzatura
   C. naturalism
   D. gusto

10. The Romantic period is generally thought to have occurred between ________________?

    A. 1800 – 1900
    B. 1805 – 1827
    C. 1798 – 1832
    D. 1785 – 1825