Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?

A. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his dictionary
B. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the encyclopédie
C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “the vanity of human wishes”
D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like robinson crusoe

Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

A. Its focus on his lost love.
B. Its rejection of scientific progress.
C. Its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. Its development of elements from national folklore.

Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?

A. His relationship to god and christianity
B. His understanding of the basis of economics
C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
D. Both a and b

How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry.

Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?

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.

In Pamela, how does the epistolary style enhance the sentimental aspects of the novel ?

A. It provides access to the heroine’s innermost reactions.
B. It does not cloud the novel with authorial intrusion that confuses the emotions.
C. It provides a sense of immediacy because the letters are written in the thick of the action.
D. All of these answers

Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?

A. Demonstrate the importance of the topic.
B. Set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
C. Reveal the learnedness of the characters.
D. Elicit the sympathy of elite readers

The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in wordsworth’s poems
B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of keats’s poems
C. A call for social and political reform as in some of shelley’s works
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of byron’s poems

Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

A. A radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B. A continuity with poets such as alexander pope.
C. A rejection of nature in favor of society.
D. A defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?

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.