Abeka English 12 Literature Test 9
The Deserted Village
times of lament are no more and the simplicity of rural life
Expostulation and Reply
the power of nature to impress our minds (theme)
My Native Land
what poem discusses the poet’s love for his homeland
To a Louse
teaches man to be sincere and not to be hypocritical (work)
The Tables Turned
nature is a better teacher than man (theme)
Dream Children: A Reverie
the story that has a surprise ending that the children are imaginary and the author is dreaming
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
love binds us together (theme)
The Task
presents nature as God’s creation for man to enjoy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
the greatest of all English literary ballads
Lines Written in Early Spring
the conflict between the beauty of nature and the depravity of man (theme)
The Battle of Blenheim
confusion of war (theme)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Sleep
what poem is a reflection on the death of Lucy
Mutability
all things are prone to change and eventual death (theme)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
what poem discusses permanence in a world of change satisfied through art
Pride and Prejudice
first significant novel to deal with an entire family
Swift
greatest English prose satirist
Isaac Watts
father of English hymnody
Robert Burns
Scotland’s greatest poet
Coleridge
who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
John Keets
believed “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”
John Milton
what great poet is celebrated by Wordsworth in “London, 1802”
Jane Austin
who wrote Pride and Prejudice
Sir Walter Scott
created the historical novel
Shelley
who wrote “A Dirge”
Elegy
a melancholy poem that that reflects on the nature and death
Byronic hero
romantic character that is rebellious, brooding and proud
epigram
a concise saying that is often witty or satiric
poetry
what genre dominated the Romantic Age
Dynamic character
what type of character undergoes change and is different at the end of the story
Friday
native islander in Robinson Crusoe
Sir Roger de Coverly
gentleman in The Spectator Club
James Boswell
friend of Samuel Johnson who wrote his biography
Francois de Bonnivard
the prisoner at the castle of Chillion
Lilliputians
people of Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels; only six inches tall
Black Knight
the name of knight in “Ivanhoe and Rebecca”
Mr. Darcy
friend of Bingley’s In Pride and Prejudice; insults Elizabeth Bennet at dance; very proud
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God”
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”
An Essay on Man
“Say first, of God above or man below, what can we reason but from what we know?’
Kubla Khan
“Through the caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea”
Lines Written in the Early Spring
“Have I not reason to lament, what man had made of man?”
Ode: Intimations of Immorality
“The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the Rose”
Ode on a Grecian Urn
“Beauty is the truth, truth beauty that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know”
Ode to the West Wind
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.”
When I have borne in memory
Poet’s patriotic feelings for his country
London, 1802
“Milton! That should’st just be living at this hour!”