Rest Enlightenment

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Rest Enlightenment Romanticism Quest

• A perilous Journey that will require great
  imagination and great wisdom.
• To be victorious on this quest for knowledge, one
  must both utilize the mind and listen to the
  heart.

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Rules

• Two types of questions
• Team Questions for team points (majority of the
  questions)
• To answer a team question
• Your team must be the first to write it on an
  answer sheet and hold it up in the air.
• Individual Questions for individual mystery
  prizes hold on to your bag until the end of the
  game
• At the top of the slide you will see !!
  Individual Questions !! and all of the questions
  on that slide will be individual.
• To answer an individual question
• You must stand up and be called on

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• Round One
• (No books or notes allowed)

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• Name the two Lake Poets
• Wordsworth Coleridge
• Who is the classic irresistible bad-boy?
• Lord Byron, or any other Byronic hero
• Which Blake poem would belong in his Songs of
  Experience?
• The Tyger
• The 2nd generation poets were associated with
  what country?
• Italy

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• Define couplet
• two successive lines, usually rhyming and having
  the same meter and often forming a complete
  thought or syntactic unit.
• Define verbal irony
• use of words to convey something other than, and
  especially the opposite of, the literal meaning
  of the words.
• What was unique about the island of Laputa?
• It flew
• What type of irony is it when the spectators
  understand the real situation, but the characters
  do not?
• Dramatic Irony

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• Who wrote An Essay on Man that doesnt really
  look like an essay?
• Alexander Pope
• Was Brobdingnag an ideal place?
• Yes Gulliver began to see the error in Englands
  governmental practices
• Name one event that Samuel Pepys described in his
  diary.

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• !! Individual Questions !!
• Which Blake poem would belong in his
  Songs of Innocence?
• The Lamb
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge was unusual
  for a Romantic because it praised the beauty of
  what?
• A city
• It was widely known that Coleridge had a _____
  problem, which led to the creation of Kubla
  Kahn.
• Drug

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• What is the poetic device used in this line?
• Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
• Alliteration
• Which group of literary figures believed in the
  noble savage the Neoclassicists or the
  Romantics?
• Romantics
• Why?
• Closer to Nature live simplistically
• Which poet wrote Ode to a Grecian Urn?
• Keats

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• What was the name of the poet who married the
  author of Frankenstein?
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• What economic philosophy set up the injustices
  that the Romantics rebelled against?
• Laissez Faire
• Frankenstein is a classic example of what kind of
  literature that explores our deepest fears?
• Gothic

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Round 1 Final Question

• After Byron read this poem in manuscript form, he
  urged Coleridge to publish it, probably because
  it epitomizes the Romantic ideals of imagination
  and the exploration of dreams. What is the name
  of the poem?
• Kubla Khan

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• Round 2
• Books Notes Allowed

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• Name the poem
• What men or gods are these? What maidens loath?
• What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
• What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• What is the title of the poem that contains the
  following lines?
• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
• Little we see in Nature that is ours
• We have given our hearts away
• The World is Too Much With Us

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• !! Individual Question !!
• Which poem best describes a lizard moment?
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge
• Who is the glory, jest, and riddle of all the
  world?
• Mankind
• What literary device is used in the following
  line?
• The river glideth at his own sweet will.
• Personification
• What type of event was going on throughout the
  world, but not in England at this time?
• Revolutions

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• Which literature term basically describes rhythm?
• Meter
• The Lilliputians were a divided nation. What was
  the issue they disagreed on?
• Which end to crack an egg

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• Beauty was a concept that especially the 2nd
  generation of poets explored. Name one of the
  poems that explore the concept of beauty (Byron
  Keats).
• She Walks in Beauty Ode to the Grecian Urn
• The role of the Romantic poet was similar to the
  role of the Anglo-Saxon or Greek
• bard or scop
• Name the poem
• Teach me half the gladness
• That thy brain must know,
• Such harmonious madness
• From my lips would flow
• The world should listen then as I am listening
  now.
• To a Skylark

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• What kind of irony occurs when the reader or
  character expects one thing and another thing
  happens.
• Situational irony
• Define Foil
• A foil character is either one who is opposite to
  the main character or nearly the same as the main
  character. The purpose of the foil character is
  to emphasize the traits of the main character by
  contrast, and perhaps by setting up situations in
  which the protagonist can show his or her
  character traits. A foil is a secondary character
  who contrasts with a major character but, in so
  doing, highlights various facets of the main
  character's personality.

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• What type of poetry focused on personal feelings
  rather than telling a story?
• Lyric
• What is the fundamental irony of Shelleys
  Ozymandias?
• The king boasted of his might, but his monument
  is now in ruins.

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• !! Individual Question !!
• The selection from Byrons Childe Harolds
  Pilgrimage is an example of what literary
  technique that has to do with a person addressing
  an inanimate object?
• Apostrophe
• The Gothic novel gave its readers the ability to
  let readers share their _____ about the ages
  suffering, injustice and other unseen evils
• Fears

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Round 2 Final Question

• Name a Byronic Hero not already mentioned in
  class.

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• Round 3
• The journey continues!

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• How did the Romantics create the musical sounds
  in their lyric poetry?
• rhyme, rhythm, alliteration and onomatopoeia.
• In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, what in the
  womans appearance does the speaker praise?
  (first stanza)
• She is a combination of all that is good of dark
  bright
• In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, does the dark
  represent evil?
• No it represents the dark, sad, lonely (etc.)
  times.

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• Name a female, gothic writer.
• Mary Shelley, or Charlotte Bronte
• Wordsworth said that a poet is a _____ speaking
  to _____.
• Man, men.
• Which man was the poet laureate of England?
• Wordsworth
• Shelleys Ode to the West Wind is written in a
  particular structure with an interlocking,
  three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba
  bcb cdc and so on that is called
• Terza Rima it was originally devised by Dante
  for The Divine Comedy

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• Which poet died from Tuberculosis?
• Keats
• The speaker in the selection from Byrons Childe
  Harolds Pilgrimage identifies very closely with
  what inanimate object?
• The Ocean
• What is an apostrophe?
• When the poet addresses something that cannot
  respond.
• Despite the growing urban culture, many in the
  Romantic period were ___ about rural life.
• Nostalgic pastoral scenes became popular.

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• What was the name of the movement that crossed
  all areas of thought including neoclassicism in
  literature?
• The enlightenment
• This poem displays how the Romantics looked to
  the Greeks and Romans for inspiration concerning
  truth and beauty.
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Name another event Samuel Pepys describes in his
  diary

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Round 3 Final Question

• Dylan Thomass poem, Do not go gentle into that
  good night is an example of what form?
• Terza Rima
• Cervantes uses what two types of satire in Don
  Quixote?
• Incongruity parody

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• Round 4
• Books Notes might
• not help you

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• Define paradox
• an apparently true statement or group of
  statements that leads to a contradiction or a
  situation which defies intuition.
• The character of Javert represents what
  principle?
• The Law
• Alexander Pope used what kind of grammatical
  structure to make his ideas memorable?
• parallelism

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• Blakes The Lamb displays that the Romantics
  valued and were fascinated by ______ and ______.
• Youth and innocence
• Why did the Neoclassicists value order?
• The Augustan poets wrote in a time of order
  restored to a society badly in need of it, and
  thus they celebrated order and happy rule.
• Why did the Romantics rebel against order?
• The Romantics, on the other hand, lived in a
  society badly in need of social changes, in a
  time of revolution

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• Does Samuel Pepys describe the beheading of
  Charles I?
• No
• What does Gulliver find out in Glubbdubdrib?
• History idolizes a great many villains as heroes.
• What discipline (area of study) is Swift making
  fun of in Laputa?
• Science pursuit of it without practical reason.
• Where did Gulliver put out the fire, effectively
  saving the Empress?
• Lilliput

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• Who is the antagonist of Les Miserables?
• Javert he helps create the main conflict of the
  novel
• Who is the foil for Jean Valjean?
• Thénardier he emphasizes Valjeans sainthood
  especially in the sewers after the barricade has
  fallen

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• !! Individual Questions !!
• What is Byron saying about the ocean in the
  following lines from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage?

• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll!
• Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain
• Man marks the earth with ruin his control
• Stops with the shore upon the watery plain
• The wrecks are all thy deed
• The ocean is more powerful than mankind
• From the Romantic viewpoint, should the world be
  explained or be experienced?
• Experienced

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• In the following selection from Blakes
  The Chimney Sweeper, what issue of the
  Industrial age is being discussed?
• When my mother died I was very young,
• And my father sold me while yet my tongue
• Could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep!
• So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
• Child Labor
• In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, what is the
  relationship between the appearance and
  personality of the woman being admired?
• That outward appearance directly relates to ones
  personality (pretty good person)

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Round 4 Final Question

• Robert Burns is a Scottish Romantic who was
  famous for writing the Scottish dialect. The
  following quote is from his poem, To a Mouse,
  where the speaker is a farmer who has plowed up
  the house of a mouse.
• Thy wee-bit housie, too in ruin!
• Its silly was the wins are strewin!
• (silly was feeble walls)
• This quote is an example of the fact that
  Romantics valued ________ and ________ language.
• Simple and Unadorned