Short Selections #1-2: Wordsworth

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The World Is Too Much With Us

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Title of Selection 1:

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William Wordsworth

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Author of Selections 1 & 2:

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1802-1804

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Year(s) in which Selection 1 was written:

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Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean)

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2 types of sonnets:

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Iambic Pentameter

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Meter of both selections:

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Father of iambic pentameter:

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Iambic, Trochaic, Dactylic, and Anapestic

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Four basic types of meter:

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Iambic

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Meter consisting of unstressed stressed

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Trochaic

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Meter consisting of stressed unstressed

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Anapestic

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Meter consisting of unstressed unstressed stressed

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Dactylic

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Meter consisting of stressed unstressed unstressed

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One octet and one sestet

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Basic structure of an Italian sonnet:

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Three quatrains and one couplet

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Basic structure of an English sonnet:

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14

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How many lines are in a sonnet?

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Poetry that expresses feeling

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What is lyric poetry?

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Lyric poetry and Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet

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Basic categorization of these two selections (2):

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Standard rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet:

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ABBAABBA CDCDCD

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Rhyme scheme of Selection 1:

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Reactionary

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Romanticism was a _____ movement.

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Enlightenment, Class Structure, and the Industrial Revolution

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Romanticism was a reaction to (3):

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Love of nature and its powers

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Main concept of Romanticism:

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William Wordsworth

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Father of Romanticism:

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Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Old group of Romantic poets (2):

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Byron, Shelley, and Keats

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New group of Romantic poets (3):

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1832 (Passage of 1st Reform Act which signaled a shift toward the Victorian Era) and 1850 (Death of Wordsworth)

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Two possible years for the end of Romanticism:

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1st person plural

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Point of view of Selection 1:

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8

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There are ____ changes in meter in Selection 1.

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Despairing, Angry, Frustrated, and Scolding

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Possible words to describe the tone of Selection 1 (4):

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The impact of the Industrial Revolution

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Selection 1 focuses on:

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Volta or turn

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Italians sonnets usually contain a ____ or ____ which occurs at line 9 in Selection 1.

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Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways

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Title of Selection 2:

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The Lake Poet

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Nickname of Wordsworth:

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Equating nature and industry

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Selection 2 focuses on:

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Many of his poems were inspired by his surroundings

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Why is Wordsworth's nickname apt?

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Sublime

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Significant word at the end of Selection 2:

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ABBAACCA DEFEDF

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Rhyme scheme of Selection 2:

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1833

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Year in which Selection 2 was written:

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To reinforce the tension between nature and industry

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What is the purpose of the natural pauses in Selection 2?

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Caesuras

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Pauses in the middle of the grammatical rhythm

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Poet Laureate

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Wordsworth held this title in Great Britain

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Love

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Sonnets were usually poem about:

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Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester

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Cities that arose out of the Industrial Revolution in Britain (3):

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Sublime

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Term for the philosophical discourse of aesthetics:

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Kant and Burke

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18th century philosophers inspired by "On the Sublime" by Longinus (2):

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Proteus

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Early sea god in Greek mythology known for his ability to change form at will

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Triton

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Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite in Greek mythology