Earnest: Characters and Society
This character believes marriage should be based on wealth and status.
Lady Bracknell
Wilde uses humor to criticize society. This is called:
Satire
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
Simile
In Annabel Lee, the speaker’s love can best be described as this.
Powerful / obsessive / eternal love.
What is the genre of The Importance of Being Earnest?
Satirical Comedy
This character invents “Bunbury” to escape social responsibilities.
Algernon
When the audience knows Jack is lying but other characters do not, this is:
Words that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery
In “America,” the speaker both admires and resents America. This shows:
Mixed feelings / love and hardship.
This time period valued manners, reputation, and social class.
Victorian Era
This character creates an imaginary romance in her diary before it happens.
Cecily
The title The Importance of Being Earnest is an example of this because it has a double meaning.
A pun
The voice telling the poem.
Speaker
The tone of Still I Rise is:
Confident and defiant.
Both Wilde and the poets use figurative language mainly to do what?
Create deeper meaning / make readers think.
Jack acts differently in the country and the city. This shows what about society?
People change their identity based on social expectations.
The women forgiving the men quickly shows Wilde is mocking what?
How unimportant honesty really is to them.
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
“Don’t catch you slippin’ now” suggests people must do this.
Stay alert / be aware of reality.
If a poem makes the reader feel calm or sad, this describes the poem’s what?
What is mood?
By the end of the play, Wilde suggests Victorian society is easily fooled by what three things?
Manners, names, and social status.
Food, tea, and manners are treated very seriously to show that Victorians focus on what?
Trivial things
When a line of poetry continues onto the next line without stopping.
enjambment
Treating America like a woman is an example of this device.
What is personification?
What is the difference between tone and mood in a poem?
Tone is the author/speaker’s attitude; mood is the feeling the reader gets.