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Comparative Literature 212 Exam 2 Questions and answers latest update
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Comparative Literature 212 Exam 2Questions and answers latest update
romanticism - correct answers 18th century movement focused on
nature, emotion, imagination, and nationalism, rejected rationality
FROM: Rousseau
The Blue Flower - correct answers a romantic symbol of metaphysical
striving for a desire, the infinite, or love
FROM: Bildungsroman, Heinrich von Ofterdingen
"The Tyger" - correct answers William Blake's representation of nature
as powerful and wonderful but frightening
"Ode to a Nightingale" - correct answers John Keats' depiction of nature
and death, main metaphor stands for conduit of the divine
nationalism - correct answers emphasized during Romantic period,
sorting out origins and making history romantic glorifies past action,
emphasis on folk culture and national soul
,Enlightenment - correct answers 17th-19th centuries, movement in
reaction to the dogma of theocracy, focused on rationality and
questioning traditional authority, inspired American and French
revolutions
satire - correct answers making something ridiculous to inspire thought,
usually used for constructive social criticism
FROM: Swift, Pope
Jonathan Swift - correct answers Enlightenment author, Anglo-Irish
poet, cleric, and satirist
FROM: Gulliver's Travels, "A Modest Proposal"
Lilliputians - correct answers six inch tall inhabitants of first island,
irrational and fiery
FROM: Gulliver's Travels
Yahoos - correct answers human-like creatures from island of
Houyhnhms, insentient cattle, motivated only by passion as opposed to
reason
FROM: Gulliver's Travels
, Houyhnyums - correct answers sentient horses that are devoted to
reason, "perfection in nature" as they are uncorrupted by passion and
not susceptible to temptation
FROM: Gulliver's Travels
Alexander Pope - correct answers 18th century Enlightenment poet and
satirist, God's goodness contrasted with evil, wrote in heroic couplets
with obvious rhyme
FROM: "An Essay on Man"
"An Essay on Man" - correct answers optimistic attempt to justify
rationally God's relationship to man, written by Alexander Pope
(1) a God of infinite wisdom exists; (2) He created a world that is the
best of all possible ones; (3) the plenum, or all-embracing whole of the
universe, is real and hierarchical; (4) authentic good is that of the
whole, not of isolated parts; (5) self-love and social love both motivate
humans' conduct; (6) virtue is attainable; (7) "One truth is clear,
WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT."
Gulliver's Travels - correct answers satire of nature and traveler's tales,
written "to vex the world rather than divert it" by Jonathan Swift
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