ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following descriptions would not have applied to any Romantic text?
A
a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
B
a lyric poem written in the first person
C
a comedy of manners
D
a political tract demanding labor reform
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Litotes is Always a Form of Understatement Litotes is a form of understatement, the intentional presentation of something as smaller, worse, or lesser than it really is.

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