Which of the following was a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

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1. Which of the following was NOT a key element or aspect of Romantic poetry ?

   A. Celebration of the imagination
   B. Engagement with nature
   C. The use of symbolism
   D. The use of allegory

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. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

   A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
   B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
   C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
   D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems

4. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the ?

   A. French Revolution
   B. Glorious Revolution of1688
   C. Reformation
   D. Oxford Movement

5. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?

   A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
   B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
   C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
   D. All the above

6. 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

7. What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

   A. Imagination
   B. Modernism
   C. Post-modernism
   D. None of the above

8. Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?

   A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
   B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
   C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
   D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.

9. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?

   A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
   B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
   C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
   D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

10. Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?

    A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
    B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
    C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
    D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.