America's Age of Reason took place in what time period?
C. 1750-1800
Genres and styles of the Age of Reason were typically:
C. political pamphlets, essays, travel writing, speeches, and highly ornate writing
Which of these was not a literary work of the Age of Reason?
A. Canterbury Tales
True or False: Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, campaigned for women's rights using letters to her husband and Congress.
True
Which of these sayings was NOT coined by Ben Franklin?
B. These are the times was Thomas Paine
Who was the first African-American poet to publish their writing, a volume called Poems and Various Subjects (1773)?
D. Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
What was the time span for the Romantic literary period?
C. 1785-1830
What was the time span for the British Gothic Literary period, though it lasted longer in America?
D. 1785-1820
Which is NOT a genre or style of the Romantic Period?
E. political pamphlets and speeches
Which author did NOT write in the Romantic period?
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
Which author did NOT write in the Romantic period?
D. Charles Dickens
Which author DID write in the Romantic period?
B. Edgar Allen Poe (gothic)
Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote Frankenstien?
C. Mary Shelley
American author James Fenimore Cooper is best known for writing which novel in the Romantic period?
C. The Last of the Mohicans
The following lines were written by which Romantic poet?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a cloud,
A host, of golden daffodils"
a. William Blake
b. Lord Byron
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats
e. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. William Wordsworth
The following lines were written by which Romantic poet?
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea"
a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. John Keats
c. Lord Byron
d. William Wordsworth
e. Percy Shelley
a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which Romantic poet wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?
B. John Keats
Which Romantic author wrote the lines:
"Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Title gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving"
B. Mary Robinson
Which is NOT a genre or style of the Romantic period?
