18th century – Romantic Era
Study Guide for Test
Kirk
Name _______________________________
Biggest study tip: Know how each work represents the era and review the
Romantic Era Project NOTES questions.
Romantic Era Study Guide (we completed in class)
1.) dates:
2.) origin:
3.) transformed:
4.) favored which author:
5.) rejected:
6.) praised:
Literary terms/genres
7.) Lyric poem:
8.) Elegy:
9.) Ode:
10.) Apostrophe:
11.) Byronic hero:
12.) Gothic novel:
13.) sublime:
18th century: Age of Reason/Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution
1.) Jonathan Swift: Read his background information.
Gulliver’s Travels (p.476): plot? satirizes? message?
A Modest Proposal: plot? satirizes? message?
2.) Alexander Pope:
Essay on Man (p. 498): message?
3.) Samuel Johnson:
A Dictionary of the English Language (p. 508): parody of? message?
18th century – Romantic Era
Study Guide for Test
Kirk
Pre-Romantics (aka transitional poets)
4.)Robert Burns
To a Mouse (p. 588): plot? message?
To a Louse: plot? message?
5.) William Blake
The Lamb (p. 598): questions asked? to whom? message?
The Tyger: questions asked? to whom? message?
6.) Thomas Gray:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (p. 520): setting? metaphors? celebrates what?
Romantic Era
7.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (p.630): setting? plot? message? symbolism?
Kubla Kahn (p. 652): setting? imagery? message?
8.) William Wordsworth:
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (p. 616): setting? message? inspires
a moment of ___________?
The World is Too Much with Us (p. 624): message?
9.) George Gordon (Lord Byron):
Apostrophe to the Ocean (p. 660): message?
Don Juan (p. 663): Don Juan’s character type? describe speaker? speaker’s
message?
10.) Percy B. Shelley:
Ozymandias (p. 670): setting? speaker? message?
Ode to the West Wind (p. 672): message? sublime?
11.) John Keats:
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be (p. 685): fears?
Ode to a Nightingale (p. 686): to whom and why? message?
Ode on a Grecian Urn (p. 690): to whom? message? famous, thematic quote?