Category: Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries

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.

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

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

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

A. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
C. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
D. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience.

A. Their conservative poetics
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality
C. Their radical politics
D. Their nationalistic tone

A. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.
B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime.
C. He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.
D. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.

A. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.
B. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.
C. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.
D. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.

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

A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
B. use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.