Modern Era Characteristics
An attempt by Irish writers to show the Irish the wealth and value of their own culture and heritage.
What was the Irish Renaissance?
This poem is a tribute to the average modern man
What is "The Unknown Citizen"
In "His Last Bow", the character played by Sherlock Holmes
Who is Altamont?
Missionary to India, ministered to children and widows being sacrificed to pagan gods
Who was Amy Carmichael?
In Pygmalion, the reason Eliza Doolittle came to Higgins
What is to change her speech, so she could get a better job
A group of poets who idealized the beauties of nature in the tradition of Wordsworth
What are Georgians?
This poem describes a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem
What is "The Second Coming"?
The name of the all-powerful leader of Oceanic society in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Who is Big Brother?
Winston Churchill’s aim of the speech, “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat”
What is "Victory"?
The main character, the man that the white man visits in "The Lagoon"
Who is Arsat?
The century that the Modern Era of British Literature occurs in.
What is the 20th Century?
Poem in which the author writes:
"This set down.
This: were we led all the way for
Birth or Death?”
What is "The Journey of the Magi"?
Play written by the socialist Bernard Shaw
What is Pygmalion?
The scholarly literary critic and author who helped many intellectuals see that Christianity was the only reasonable way of life for the 20th century man
Who is C.S. Lewis?
She said, "I don’t want no gold and no diamonds. I’m a good girl, I am."
Who is Eliza Doolittle?
Three techniques that emerged in literature during the 20th Century
What are imagism, surrealism and existentialism?
The poem in which the author writes:
“Was he free? Was he happy?
The question is absurd.”
What is "The Unknown Citizen"
In His Last Bow, Von Bork was collecting information about this country.
What is England?
The author of 1984
Who is George Orwell?
The recipient of the letters written by his uncle-demon Screwtape
Who is Wormwood?
Psychologist whose work strongly influenced 20th century thinking and literature.
Who was Sigmund Freud?
The poem and author who wrote
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
What is "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
A type of literature that answered the growing demand for brevity in writing.
What is the short story?
Polish born, British writer who wrote "The Lagoon".
Who is Joseph Conrad?
In Nineteen Eighty-Four the term that means “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them
What is double think?