A. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
B. Scientific exploration.
C. Love and romance.
D. The philosophy of how to run a new country.
Related Mcqs:
- Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism. - 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 - Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
C. William Hazlitt
D. Oliver Goldsmith - The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?
A. Postmodern; end slavery.
B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
C. Modernism; end individualism.
D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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) - The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
B. Advance a single system to the public
C. Allow the writer to draw on his
D. Be brooding and meditative. own personality
