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

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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...

Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

A. demonstrate the importance of the topic. B. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns. C. reveal the learnedness of the characters. D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers...

How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?

A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships. B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion. C. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings. D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy....

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...

In The Way of the World, Congreve satirizes which of the following ?

A. Ideas about chastity B. The institution of marriage C. The aristocracy D. All of these answers...