ENGLISH 4

REVIEW: ROMANTIC PERIOD TOPICS AND WRITERS, Part 1

W hat marks the beginning of the Romantic period Original meaning of Romance Values/concerns of Romantic writers two major political/social events which heavily impacted or influenced British Romantic writers Disillusioned by tyranny and working conditions, British Romantic writers lost faith in two key hallmarks of the previous Enlightenment period The shift from hand labor to mechanization and new forms of manufacturing W riter who hated the city because of its crime, filth, and tendency to strip people of hope and independence origins of Frankenstein meaning of Frankenstein subtitle Romantic poet whose writing was marked by two major processes or stages growth and memory Blakes profession Blakes best known poetry collections Austens satire of Gothic novels & writers key early Gothic novels and writers Poets known for writing in the vernacular Scottish poets Poet associated w ith Englands beautiful and inspiring Lakes District Known as the National Poet of Scotland How did Burns parents most influence his writing? word that perhaps most accurately describes Burns imagery in his writing and his surroundings? key to popularity of wide range of Frankenstein stories over past 75 4 0 0 years Romantic poet who prominently used the supernatural in some of his writing How did Blake use the traditional epic poets invocation to the Muse in one of his poems? use of extended metaphor in The Poison Tree W ordsworths definition of lyric poetry W hat does Burns envy about the mouse (whose nest Burns had run over with his plow) W riter who was inspired by Frances revolution but disillusioned when he fled that country, leaving behind a girlfriend and child. the most spiritual of artists

Literary/poetic terms (definitions, examples): mock epic picaresque homme/femme fatale hyperbole apostrophe moral nihilism/istic Octavio rima Terza rima types of irony satire Poet Laureate archetypes in literature Byronic hero legend of Don Juan Prometheus myth W riters who used theme(s) from the Prometheus myth in their works invoking the Muse poetic forms Shelley builds into Ode to the W est W ind archaic words or language synecdoche and/or metonymy assonance vs. consonance vs. alliteration internal rhyme personification vs. metaphor vs. simile paradox slant or half rhyme Gothic story elements epigraph galvanism illustration & art in margins and underneath literary text when and by whom was previous topic begun common key motifs Blake used in his works extended metaphor

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How does Tintern Abbey reflect W ordsworths theories regarding poetry? Cause of the falling-out between W ordsworth and Coleridge Coleridges health problem An example of Coleridges unfinished writing Coleridges idea: W illing suspension of disbelief Coleridges theory regarding fancy vs. imagination origin of Coleridges poem Kublai Khan In which ways does Ode to the W est W ind reflect Percy Shelleys technical experimentation? His philosophical speculation? Theme of Ode to the W est W ind W hat early experiences in Shelleys life appear to be the result of his rebellious spirit? W ho and what is W illiam Godwin? W ho and what is Mary Wollstonecraft? Percy and Mary Shelleys tragedies Key poetic characteristics of Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Famous song written by Robert Burns Poets attitude to the Mouse (i. e., tone of the poem) How are the mouse and the speaker alike? How are they different? How is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a frame tale? Theme(s) of The. Rime of the Ancient Mariner typical/traditional scansion of the sonnet form Sonnets read last semester Sonnets read this semester

Three parts or sections of a sonnet Divine Comedy's rhyme scheme and scansion or beats per line The speaker in Byrons She W alks in Beauty says the ladys beauty is a reflection or expression of what? The stanzas from Byrons Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (titled Apostrophe to the Ocean) apostrophize or identify the ocean as what? W h at is the basis of the irony in Shelleys Ozymandias ? Main theme of Ozymandias In Ode to the W est W ind, what is Shelleys initial proposition or goal? How does Shelley ultimately see a way of uniting himself with the W est Wind? Meaning of the closing lines of Ode to the W est W ind W h at characteristic of the Romantic Movement did Mary Shelley try to achieve in Frankenstein, according to the Introduction? According to the Introduction, who encouraged Mary Shelley to expand Frankenstein into a full-length novel? Type of modern writing (think genre) Frankenstein most resembles Key Gothic element that Shelley set out to employ in Frankenstein W h at characteristic do Gothic novels share w ith other literature in the Romantic tradition? W ordsworths response to nature in Tintern Abbey? The main theme of Tintern Abbey Q: How does W ordsworth describe his second visit to Tintern Abbey (contrasted to the first)? A: Its m ore______________________ Tintern Abbey celebrates the power o f_______ (a cornerstone of W ordsworths definition of good lyric poetry) W h at other elements of Romantic lyric poetry are included in Tintern Abbey?

According to the poet/speaker in W ordsworths The Prelude, what issues of the times caused the French Revolution to fail? Main theme of The Prelude (which reflects Wordsworths own feelings at the time) Meaning of the title The W orld Is Too Much W ith Us Wordsworth's main subject in The W orld Is Too Much W ith Us By invoking John Milton in London 1802, what does the speaker suggest England is in need of? The main question the speaker asks in Blakes The Lamb One archetypal idea The Lamb symbolizes Meaning of the archetypal image of coffins of black Inciting incident of Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Main theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The reason the ancient mariner is the only survivor of the crew After floating at sea for what appear to be weeks, how does the ancient mariner get home? The reason the ancient mariner travels from land to land after he returns home Main idea or theme of Burnss To a Louse Reason the bride was crying in W ood and Married and A Social class of characters in W ood and Married and A? How do you know?