Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

   A. its focus on his lost love.
   B. its rejection of scientific progress.
   C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
   D. its development of elements from national folklore.

2. Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

   A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
   B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
   C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
   D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

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. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?

   A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
   B. “The Winter’s Tale”
   C. “The Tempest”
   D. “Faustus”

5. Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?

   A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
   B. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
   C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
   D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

6. Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?

   A. the ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.
   B. a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
   C. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
   D. an event that had little consequence to England

7. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

   A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
   B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
   C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
   D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

8. Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?

   A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole.
   B. the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.
   C. Victor Frankenstein’s diary.
   D. Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin.

9. Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?

   A. traveled to America.
   B. believed in God.
   C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
   D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.

10. Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?

    A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
    B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
    C. reliance on classical scholarship.
    D. defense of violent emotions as natural.