Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

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1. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

   A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
   B. sound as a means to express meaning
   C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
   D. all of the above

2. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

3. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?

   A. the lyric poem written in the first person
   B. the sonnet
   C. doggerel rhyme
   D. the political tract

4. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

   A. Genteel
   B. Symbolist
   C. Impressionist
   D. Decadent

5. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

   A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
   C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

6. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

   A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
   B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
   C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
   D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

7. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

   A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
   B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
   C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
   D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

8. Which of the following elements DOES NOT characterize epic poetry ?

   A. An Epic Council
   B. An “Arming of the Hero” Scene
   C. A “Tragic Recognition” Speech
   D. An Invocation to the Muse

9. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?

   A. John Milton
   B. Alfred Tennyson
   C. Allen Ginsberg
   D. Amy Lowell

10. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?

    A. Christina Rossetti
    B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
    C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
    D. Ted Hughes