British Literature Survey
Midterm Exam: Samples

Bring a blue book (located in the bookstore), and make sure to pledge it before turning it in.

Sample Questions

Short Answer
1) What concept of Keats's provides a direct rebuttal to Coleridge's privileging of truth over pleasure?

Identifications
1) "emotions recollected in tranquility"
2) Dorothy

Identification & Explication
1) "O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing" (ll.65-68).

Short Essay
1)Elaborate upon one thematic or stylistic link between the work of John Keats and that of Alfred Tennyson.

Paul Marchbanks
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