ENGL 205 Reading Quiz 5 Regent
- The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge that there is both joy and suffering in the world around him.
- The Whiteboard presentation about Romantic literature explains that the label “romantic” was a chivalric title those poets used to describe themselves.
- When Scrooge sees his own future, he’s relieved that a few people will grieve for him after he dies.
- The Ancient Mariner’s ship becomes “like a painted ship upon a painted ocean” because the Mariner killed the white dove.
- In Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer,” the poet escapes the astronomer’s conversation to retire to the seashore.
- Scrooge is still a little grouchy and miserly at the end of A Christmas Carol, showing that change can’t happen overnight.
- The “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a morality tale about loving all creatures great and small, is told by an old seaman to a wedding guest.
- When Scrooge first sees the ghost of Marley in A Christmas Carol, he immediately starts to feel guilty for the way he’s acted.
- In the beginning of section 6 of Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, the poet examines a blade of grass.
- Tennyson’s long poem, The Idylls of the King, is a retelling of the Oedipal drama.