Victor Frankenstein’s project to create life in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?

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Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter C. The concluding lines of any poem D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners...

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”...

Complete the following sentence. We can best understand the medieval setting of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as______________?

A. revealing his interest in Chaucer. B. enabling his 18th-century readers access to a world they would see as less rational. C. promoting the rise of museums. D. commenting on the French and Indian War....

Which of the following statements best characterizes Romanticism’s relationship to the Enlightenment ?

A. Romanticism continued the Enlightenment’s focus on a universal order best apprehended through reason. B. Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis of truth. C. Romanticism largely abandoned the Enlightenment’s hope in progressive political change. D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanticism deemed the natural world unimportant...

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...