A. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.

B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.

D. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.

A. like a novel, it makes claims to historical realism.

B. like a novel, it tells its story with an emphasis on realistic detail and the everyday passage of time.

C. like a romance, it focuses on an aristocratic character considered superior to average individuals.

A. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.

B. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.

D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.

C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.

D. an epic describing a great romance.

B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.

C. it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.

D. it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.

B. folklore.

C. exoticism

D. nationalism.

B. John Locke

C. Denis Diderot

D. David Hume

A. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.

C. the ultimate expression of humankinds ability to control its own destiny.

D. an event that had little consequence to England

B. demonstrate the importance of the topic.

C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.

D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers

A. The power given to absolute monarchs by God

B. A period in the 18th century that celebrated industry

C. The revelation of religious truths through meditation

A. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

C. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.

D. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.

B. Alexander Pope

C. Percy Shelley

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A. The government

B. Organized religion

D. Marriage

A. Ann Radcliffe

B. John Keats

C. Alfred Lord Tennyson

A. The aristocracy

B. The institution of marriage

C. Ideas about chastity

A. Its use of mysterious events to spur readers interests and emotional responses

B. Its medieval settings

D. The sublime

A. The common man

B. The movement of time

D. The outcast figure

A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body

B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty

D. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting

A. Benns Oroonoko

B. Wordsworths We Are Seven

D. Swifts A Modest Proposal

A. It focuses on adventures.

C. It focuses on a royal hero.

D. It connects to poetry.

A. Sexual promiscuity

B. Hidden identities

D. Epic heroes

A. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

B. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination

D. The poet as special interpreter of the world

A. They enabled discussion about important literary texts.

B. They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets.

C. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts.

A. It has a didactic moral focus.

B. It emphasizes emotion over reason.

D. There is a focus on a central love story.

A. its scientific ethos and setting in London.

B. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly.

D. its references to Shakespeare.

B. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect on rational progress

C. Its use of the sublime

D. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading villain

B. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions

C. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands

D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties

A. Medievalism

B. Romanticism

D. Familiar essays

B. There is a spontaneous overflow of emotion.

C. It includes elements of parody.

D. It is written in common, ordinary language.

B. They tend to value love above money and honor.

C. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.

D. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.

A. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages

B. An identical rhyme structure

C. The sense of hope that death will come soon

A. ightenments hope in progressive political change.

B. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant

C. Romanticism continued the Enlightenments focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason.

D. Romanticism largely abandoned the

B. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping Englands economy.

C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.

D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

B. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved

C. The concluding lines of any poem

D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

A. the political focus on individuals and their rights.

B. scientific emphasis on detailed observation.

C. philosophical theories of sympathy and human emotions.

B. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.

C. rejection of traditional models.

D. rejection of Renaissance optimism.

B. devoted to religion above all things

C. always fighting for good against evil.

D. fortunate in always coming out victorious.

A. Penal reform

B. Educational reform

C. The role of the monarchy

A. Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho

C. Richardsons Pamela

D. Congreves The Way of the World

A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman.

B. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.

D. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.

A. To help him start a new revolutionary war

B. To help him reach the afterlife

D. To help him hear natures music

A. Horror

B. The sublime

D. Suspense

A. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority.

B. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners.

D. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations.

A. he was given special educational opportunities.

C. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.

D. his brothers died in their youth.

A. Women should be given the right to vote immediately.

B. Women should make sure to receive an education in order to secure their own futures.

C. Women should wear more makeup in order to attract husbands.

A. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

C. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary

D. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopdie

A. a rejection of nature in favor of society.

B. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

D. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

A. Ann Radcliffe

B. Matthew Lewis

D. William Congreve