Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT________________?

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Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko ?

A. Nonfiction B. Travel memoir C. Detective story D. Biography...

The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in … The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy”...

What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?

A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions B. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties...

Which of the following is a requirement of a dramatic monologue ?

A. It has a speaker as well as an implied reader. B. It includes elements of parody. C. There is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.” D. It is written in common, ordinary language....

For I have learned/To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of humanity” ?

A. The poet’s changing relationship to nature as fount of meaning and significance B. The falsity of human art as opposed to the immediate truth of nature C. The failure of the poet when a youth to imagine his future D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in favor of mature rationality...