How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

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Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is_______________?

A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife. B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer. C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning. D. an epic describing a great romance....

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?

A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world C. The poet as special interpreter of the world D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world...

With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?

A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven” B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” D. Benn’s Oroonoko...

John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?

A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King...

What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?

A. An identical rhyme structure B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages C. The sense of hope that death will come soon D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life...