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Romantic Period: Names and Terms to Know
DIRECTIONS: Write a brief sentence explaining each of the following names and terms. You will find all of the information you need on pages 718- 719 in your textbook.
1.Waterloo
2.Robert Fulton
3.St. Peter’s Field
4.The Regency
5.Duke of Wellington
6.Reform Act of 1832
DIRECTIONS: Answer each question.
New Inventions Add Momentum to the Industrial Revolution
7.What did the steam engine make possible?
8.What did the locomotive do?
9.What industry was transformed by the spinning jenny?
English Political Reforms
10.What conflicts involving the working class came to a head during this period?
11.What were the terms of the Reform Act of 1832?
12.What happened in 1833?
The Monarchy before Victoria
13.What problems are associated with George III?
14.Who succeeded George III and what was the reputation of his reign?
15.When and how did Victoria become the monarch?
Essential Question 1: What is the relationship between place and literature?
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions about the first Essential Question in the Introduction about the relationship between place and literature. All the information you need is on pages 720-721 in your textbook.
Romantic Emphasis on Strange, Faraway Places
16.Romanticism defined itself by opposition to _____.
17.Who was the Ancient Mariner?
18.Who was Kubla Khan?
19.Who was Ozymandias?
Real and Imaginary Refuges
20.How did Wordsworth turn the Lake District into a refuge from “dark satanic mills”?
21.Shelley’s skylark and Keats’s nightingale are not ordinary birds because they lure _____.
22.Wordsworth presented nature not as an imaginary, ideal world, but as _____.
23.In what ways had London been improved?
24.In what ways was the image of the city still bleak?
Essential Question 2: How does literature shape or reflect society?
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions about the second Essential Question in the Introduction about the writer and society. All the information you need is on pages 722-724 in your textbook.
Political and Industrial Revolutions
25.In what terms did Wordsworth describe the French Revolution?
26.What hard lesson did Napoleon’s reign teach the idealists?
27.What hard lesson did the revolutions teach the ruling class?
Writers’ Reactions to Revolutionary Changes
28.In The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecroft urged _____.
29.In “The Chimney Sweeper,” William Blake spoke against the practice of _____.
30.What writing of Byron took up the cause of the lower classes?
31.What writing of Shelley took up the cause of the lower classes?
32.What role for nature did Wordsworth advocate?
Essential Question 3: What is the relationship of the writer to tradition?
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions about the third Essential Question in the Introduction, about the relationship between the writer and tradition. All the information you need is on pages 725-727 in your textbook.
Rejecting Previous Traditions
33.What eighteenth-century literary forms did the Romantics reject?
34.Why?
35.Why did numerous writings in this period use ordinary speech?
36.Against what political views did the Romantic writers rebel?
Reviving Poetical Traditions
37.Name 2 Romantic writers who revived the sonnet form or used it in a new way.
38.The _____ is a classic form perfected by the Romantic poet John Keats.
Mysterious Literary Figure
39.Who is the “Byronic hero?”
40.How was he invented?
41.Examples of the Byronic hero in the twenty-first century include _____.
Romantic Prose Inventions
42.On what subjects did the novels of Jane Austen focus?
43.On what subjects did Sir Walter Scott’s novels focus?
44.What is the “Gothic novel?”
45.How does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein use Gothic elements?