MTTC ENGLISH WORDS/ CONCEPTS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Romanticism - Answer-in first half of 19th century, championed: individual heroes,
artists, pioneers, freedom of expression, the exotic, power of individual imagination
Romanticism Writers and Poets - Answer-Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Laurence Sterne, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, William Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats,
William Blake - Answer-Had visions- many thought him crazy, one of the earliest and
foremost English Romantic poets, his work had mystical and philosophical elements,
famous poems include Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Book of Thel, The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem
William Wordsworth - Answer-was important in establishing Romanticism, wrote
"Preface to Lyrical Ballads"- Romantic literary theory and criticism, his poem known as
"the poem to Coleridge"-his major work, Other poems by him "I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud", "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", "Westminster Bridge", "The World is Too
Much with Us"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Answer-helped launch Romanticism with Wordsworth,
criticism: Biographia Literaria, coined many philosophical and literary terms, created
Conversational Poetry, Best Known works "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",
"Christabel", "Kubla Khan" "The Nightingale" "Dejection: An Ode" "To William
Wordsworth"
George Gordon, Lord Byron - Answer-known for long narrative poems, "Don Juan",
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", and "She Walks in Beauty", wrote linguistic volumes on
American and Armenian grammars,
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Answer-known for his lyric poems, famous after his death,
married to Mary Shelley- known for Frankenstein, his most known poems
"Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "Music", "When Soft Voices
Die", "Adonais", "Queen Mab"/" The Daemon of the World", " The Cloud", "The Masque
of Anarchy"
Johns Keats - Answer-known for his 6 odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on
Indolence", "Doe on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Psyche", "To Autumn"
Known as for sonnets, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Endymion", "O Solitude"
, William Butler Yeats - Answer-transitional from Romanticism to Modernism, Works "The
Stolen Child", "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Death of Cuchulain", "Who goes with
Fergus?". Most significant collections: The Green Helmet, Responsibilities, The Tower,
and The Winding Stair.
Novel of Manners - Answer-fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the
social behaviors of a specific time and place; behaviors of specific societies are shorter
lived and more varied, Jane Austin
Epistolary Novels - Answer-written in the form of a letter, Samuel Richardson- Pamela,
Clarissa
Pastoral Novels - Answer-idealize country life as idyllic and Utopian akin to the Garden
of Eden, Daphnis and Chloe Longus- influenced many Elizabethan romances like
Lodge's "Rosalynde"---realism made this lean toward dystopian- Hardy/ George Eliot
Bidungsroman - Answer-German for "Education novel", focus on coming of age novels,
including youth struggles and searches for things such as identity, spiritual
understanding, or meaning in life, Johann Wolfgang von Geothe's Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre credited with the origin.
Roman a Clef - Answer-French for "novel with a key", books that require a real-life
frame of reference or key for full comprehension, Examples: Geoffrey Chaucer-
Canterbury Tales, George Orwell- Animal Farm,
Realism - Answer-a literary form with the goal of representing reality as faithfully as
possible, realist focused on immediacy of time and place, specific actions of characters
and consequences of those actions, some techniques include writing in vernacular
(conversational language), Dostoevksy- Crime and Punishment, Henry James- Daisy
Miller, Mark Twain- Huckleberry Finn
Satire - Answer-uses sarcasm, irony, and/or humor as social critism to lampoon human
folly, Alexander Pope's poem "Rape of the lock", Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift
Farce - Answer-zany, goofy type of comedy that includes pitfalls, other forms of
slapstick humor, plot contains highly improbable events, mistaken events, deceptions,
and disguises, Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors is an example
Romantic Comedy - Answer-most popular, include humor, happy ending and love, story
line- two people well suited to one another are either brought together for the first time
or reconciled after being separated. Example Disney Cinderella
Satirical Comedy and Black Comedy - Answer-generally mock and lampoon human
foolishness and vices; make main characters either fool, morally corrupt, cynical in
attitude. characters display foible- cuckolded spouses, dupes, other gullible types.
Examples Volpone-Ben Jonson, The Birds- Aristophanes,
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Romanticism - Answer-in first half of 19th century, championed: individual heroes,
artists, pioneers, freedom of expression, the exotic, power of individual imagination
Romanticism Writers and Poets - Answer-Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Laurence Sterne, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, William Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats,
William Blake - Answer-Had visions- many thought him crazy, one of the earliest and
foremost English Romantic poets, his work had mystical and philosophical elements,
famous poems include Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Book of Thel, The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem
William Wordsworth - Answer-was important in establishing Romanticism, wrote
"Preface to Lyrical Ballads"- Romantic literary theory and criticism, his poem known as
"the poem to Coleridge"-his major work, Other poems by him "I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud", "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", "Westminster Bridge", "The World is Too
Much with Us"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Answer-helped launch Romanticism with Wordsworth,
criticism: Biographia Literaria, coined many philosophical and literary terms, created
Conversational Poetry, Best Known works "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",
"Christabel", "Kubla Khan" "The Nightingale" "Dejection: An Ode" "To William
Wordsworth"
George Gordon, Lord Byron - Answer-known for long narrative poems, "Don Juan",
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", and "She Walks in Beauty", wrote linguistic volumes on
American and Armenian grammars,
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Answer-known for his lyric poems, famous after his death,
married to Mary Shelley- known for Frankenstein, his most known poems
"Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "Music", "When Soft Voices
Die", "Adonais", "Queen Mab"/" The Daemon of the World", " The Cloud", "The Masque
of Anarchy"
Johns Keats - Answer-known for his 6 odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on
Indolence", "Doe on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Psyche", "To Autumn"
Known as for sonnets, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Endymion", "O Solitude"
, William Butler Yeats - Answer-transitional from Romanticism to Modernism, Works "The
Stolen Child", "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Death of Cuchulain", "Who goes with
Fergus?". Most significant collections: The Green Helmet, Responsibilities, The Tower,
and The Winding Stair.
Novel of Manners - Answer-fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the
social behaviors of a specific time and place; behaviors of specific societies are shorter
lived and more varied, Jane Austin
Epistolary Novels - Answer-written in the form of a letter, Samuel Richardson- Pamela,
Clarissa
Pastoral Novels - Answer-idealize country life as idyllic and Utopian akin to the Garden
of Eden, Daphnis and Chloe Longus- influenced many Elizabethan romances like
Lodge's "Rosalynde"---realism made this lean toward dystopian- Hardy/ George Eliot
Bidungsroman - Answer-German for "Education novel", focus on coming of age novels,
including youth struggles and searches for things such as identity, spiritual
understanding, or meaning in life, Johann Wolfgang von Geothe's Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre credited with the origin.
Roman a Clef - Answer-French for "novel with a key", books that require a real-life
frame of reference or key for full comprehension, Examples: Geoffrey Chaucer-
Canterbury Tales, George Orwell- Animal Farm,
Realism - Answer-a literary form with the goal of representing reality as faithfully as
possible, realist focused on immediacy of time and place, specific actions of characters
and consequences of those actions, some techniques include writing in vernacular
(conversational language), Dostoevksy- Crime and Punishment, Henry James- Daisy
Miller, Mark Twain- Huckleberry Finn
Satire - Answer-uses sarcasm, irony, and/or humor as social critism to lampoon human
folly, Alexander Pope's poem "Rape of the lock", Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift
Farce - Answer-zany, goofy type of comedy that includes pitfalls, other forms of
slapstick humor, plot contains highly improbable events, mistaken events, deceptions,
and disguises, Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors is an example
Romantic Comedy - Answer-most popular, include humor, happy ending and love, story
line- two people well suited to one another are either brought together for the first time
or reconciled after being separated. Example Disney Cinderella
Satirical Comedy and Black Comedy - Answer-generally mock and lampoon human
foolishness and vices; make main characters either fool, morally corrupt, cynical in
attitude. characters display foible- cuckolded spouses, dupes, other gullible types.
Examples Volpone-Ben Jonson, The Birds- Aristophanes,
