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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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)
    

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

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

3. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

   A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   D. all of the above

4. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

   A. a French revolutionary
   B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure
   C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory
   D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

5. Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text ?

   A. a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
   B. a lyric poem written in the first person
   C. a comedy of manners
   D. a political tract demanding labor reform

6. Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Percy Shelley
   C. William Hazlitt
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7. In Shakespeare’s literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of__________________?

   A. Comedy plays
   B. Historical plays
   C. Great Tragedies
   D. None of above

8. 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

9. Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?

   A. Literary theory tends to be too political.
   B. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
   C. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

    A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
    B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
    C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
    D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.