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Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
A. theoretical science
B. metaphysics
C. abstract logical deductions
D. A, B, and C
John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Alexander Pope
C. Ben Jonson
D. George Herbert
Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
A. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
B. Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
C. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
D. Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
A. Sense and Suspensibility
B. Emma
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Mansfield Park
Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace
Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Mansfield Park
Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree…”?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. Walt Whitman
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
A. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans
B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking
C. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,
D. All the above
Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D. all but C
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