NEMCC British Literature II Final questions
with accurate answers
___ tells the story of a young boy whose attitude about his life and work
is changed for the better because of a dream he has. Ans✓✓✓The
Chimney Sweeper
___ the poem which contrasts the self-sacraficial love of the clod and the
selfish acquisitive love of the pebble. Ans✓✓✓The Clod and the Pebble
___ was what Disraeli called the two classes of capital and labor, the
large owner and the possessionless wageworker, the rich and the poor in
England. Ans✓✓✓Two Nations
"And much it grieved my heart to think; What man has made of man" is
a quote from " [a1] ". Ans✓✓✓Lines Written in Early Spring
"Instead of the cross, the Albatross, / About my neck was hung."
Ans✓✓✓-
"The Eve of St. Agnes" has often been compared to Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. Give at least 4 specific examples from the poem
which make this a valid comparison. Ans✓✓✓Both works included
plots that seemed to be quite similar. In addition, the two also consisted
of two lovers in which the story played out. They were also not
permitted to be together due to the controversy within the family.
Furthermore, they would even try to remain together despite the
unfortunate circumstances.
,"Water, water, every where/ and all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink." is a
quote from "___" by ___. Ans✓✓✓The Rime of the Ancient Marker;
Samuel Coleridge
"won" the Mariner in a dice game Ans✓✓✓Life in Death
a collection of poems published jointly by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Ans✓✓✓Lyrical Ballads
a long lyric poem addressed to a particular subject, serious in subject and
treatment, dignified by its theme, occasion, or subject Ans✓✓✓Ode
A lyric poem with a traditional form of 14 lines written in iambic
pentameter Ans✓✓✓Sonnet
a poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds of the last
words or last syllables in each line Ans✓✓✓End rhyme
a recurring unit of a poem, when lines are grouped together
Ans✓✓✓Stanza
A Tale of Today Ans✓✓✓
, a tribute to the beauty of a "lady of darkness," who was the poet's cousin
by marriage Ans✓✓✓"She Walks in Beauty"
a TYPE of poem about art Ans✓✓✓ekphrastic
allowed married women to own property in their own right
Ans✓✓✓Married Women's Property Act of 1882
although the youngest of the Romantic poets, he was the first to die
Ans✓✓✓John Keats
at St. Peter's Field, English troops fired upon an orderly assembly of
workers who were demanding parliamentary reform Ans✓✓✓"Peterloo
Massacre"
author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was a strong champion
of women's rights. She asserted that women possess equal intellectual
capacity and talents as men and demanded for them a greater share of
social, educational, and vocational privileges. Ans✓✓✓Mary
Wollstonecraft
author of Frankenstein Ans✓✓✓Mary Shelley
believed in the reasonableness of mankind and was expelled from
college for his "The Necessity of Atheism" Ans✓✓✓Percy Shelley
with accurate answers
___ tells the story of a young boy whose attitude about his life and work
is changed for the better because of a dream he has. Ans✓✓✓The
Chimney Sweeper
___ the poem which contrasts the self-sacraficial love of the clod and the
selfish acquisitive love of the pebble. Ans✓✓✓The Clod and the Pebble
___ was what Disraeli called the two classes of capital and labor, the
large owner and the possessionless wageworker, the rich and the poor in
England. Ans✓✓✓Two Nations
"And much it grieved my heart to think; What man has made of man" is
a quote from " [a1] ". Ans✓✓✓Lines Written in Early Spring
"Instead of the cross, the Albatross, / About my neck was hung."
Ans✓✓✓-
"The Eve of St. Agnes" has often been compared to Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. Give at least 4 specific examples from the poem
which make this a valid comparison. Ans✓✓✓Both works included
plots that seemed to be quite similar. In addition, the two also consisted
of two lovers in which the story played out. They were also not
permitted to be together due to the controversy within the family.
Furthermore, they would even try to remain together despite the
unfortunate circumstances.
,"Water, water, every where/ and all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink." is a
quote from "___" by ___. Ans✓✓✓The Rime of the Ancient Marker;
Samuel Coleridge
"won" the Mariner in a dice game Ans✓✓✓Life in Death
a collection of poems published jointly by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Ans✓✓✓Lyrical Ballads
a long lyric poem addressed to a particular subject, serious in subject and
treatment, dignified by its theme, occasion, or subject Ans✓✓✓Ode
A lyric poem with a traditional form of 14 lines written in iambic
pentameter Ans✓✓✓Sonnet
a poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds of the last
words or last syllables in each line Ans✓✓✓End rhyme
a recurring unit of a poem, when lines are grouped together
Ans✓✓✓Stanza
A Tale of Today Ans✓✓✓
, a tribute to the beauty of a "lady of darkness," who was the poet's cousin
by marriage Ans✓✓✓"She Walks in Beauty"
a TYPE of poem about art Ans✓✓✓ekphrastic
allowed married women to own property in their own right
Ans✓✓✓Married Women's Property Act of 1882
although the youngest of the Romantic poets, he was the first to die
Ans✓✓✓John Keats
at St. Peter's Field, English troops fired upon an orderly assembly of
workers who were demanding parliamentary reform Ans✓✓✓"Peterloo
Massacre"
author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was a strong champion
of women's rights. She asserted that women possess equal intellectual
capacity and talents as men and demanded for them a greater share of
social, educational, and vocational privileges. Ans✓✓✓Mary
Wollstonecraft
author of Frankenstein Ans✓✓✓Mary Shelley
believed in the reasonableness of mankind and was expelled from
college for his "The Necessity of Atheism" Ans✓✓✓Percy Shelley
