Romantic Period: Lord Byron – Flashcards
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Which word below would be the best synonym for aspect, as it is used in this poem?
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face
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What does the line from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage suggest?
There is society, where none intrudes
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Nature itself is sufficient society for an individual.
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The phrase "society, where none intrudes . . ." (line 3) expresses the speaker's feeling that__________.
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nature is good company
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Which question is answered by the line from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
I love not man the less, but nature more
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How does the narrator feel about nature?
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To confirm his high opinion of the woman, the speaker supplies —
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no evidence at all
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In lines 5-6, "Thus mellowed to that tender light / Which heaven to gaudy day denies," the speaker asserts that the —
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woman is most beautiful in moonlight
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This stanza describes the pleasures and terrors of ?
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swimming
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Why does the speaker of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage admire the ocean?
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The ocean is unchanged by human activities.
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In line 5 of "Ode to the West Wind," what are the "Pestilence-stricken multitudes"?
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leaves
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In part I of "Ode to the West Wind," the speaker suggests that the west wind
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preserves seeds.
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The speaker wishes to become a lyre —
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so that the wind blowing through his strings can make beautiful sounds
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Each section of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" contains twelve lines in terza rima; in other words, —
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three-line stanzas with interlocking rhyme
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In order to be lifted by the west wind, the speaker wishes to be any of the following items except a —
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boat
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What images do the lines from "Ode to the West Wind" suggest?
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, / Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean . . .
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Heaven and Ocean are like large trees.
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"Thou," used throughout the poem, refers to —
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the wind
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The descriptions of the West Wind in the first two sections of "Ode to the West Wind" are dominated by images of
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violence, death, decay, and burial.
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With which season does the speaker associate the west wind?
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Fall
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Lines 55-56, "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed / One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud," mean that the speaker —
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feels that his spirit resembles the wind
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In "Ozymandias," the words on the pedestal are contrasted with the
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power of time and nature.
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In the poem the monument to Ozymandias is —
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a ruin
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The traveler describes the statue of Ozymandias as a(n) —
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figure with two legs and pieces of the head
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The traveler seems to believe that —
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even the greatest works are destroyed by time
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Ironically Ozymandias had expected —
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his works to endure, but they have fallen into ruin
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The words conveyed in lines 10-11 are those of the —
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king
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Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which of the following is part of the "passions" referred to in line 6 of "Ozymandias"?
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pride
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The central idea of the poem might be that —
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time renders all people, even great kings, the same in the end
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The speaker in "Ode to a Grecian Urn" feels that the urn —
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will outlast him
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In Line 2 of "When I Have Fears . . . ," which reads, "[b]efore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain," which of the following creates assonance?
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the long e sound
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In lines 11-14 of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker is praising the powers of the human
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imagination.
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In the second stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker states his preference above all for melodies that are directed to the
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spirit.
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The speaker in "When I Have Fears" compares the content of great books to —
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a rich harvest
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In "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be," what is Keats symbolizing in the image of "high-piled books" that "Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain"?
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his completed poems
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The painting of the couple on the urn on "Ode to a Grecian Urn" reminds the speaker of —
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the fleeting nature of existence
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Which line best paraphrases the excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; . . .
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Happy branches, that will never lose your leaves or leave the springtime . . .
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"When I Have Fears" describes the speaker's reaction to —
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the transience of life