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A boy abandoned on the streets of Liverpool, a willful young woman, a storm
What is Wuthering Heights?
Near the end of [his/her] life, this author was convicted of "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years of hard labor. [His/her] literary work was used as evidence during the trial.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
"I am Heathcliff!"
Who is Catherine Earnshaw?
This set of literary-artistic movements were characterized by authors and artists who broke away from previous norms and established traditions. Their creed, "make it new," fittingly accompanied rapid changes in consumer culture (and in many academic disciplines).
What is Modernism?
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland... It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
What is from "The Dead" by James Joyce?
A potion, a beast of burden, ancient Greece
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This author's writing exerted a significant influence on early reformers of women's higher education and advocates of the women's rights movement in England. Her most famous book-length essay argued for the inclusion of women on college campuses and other places of higher learning.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
"It is impossible to say just what I mean!"
Who is J. Alfred Prufrock (from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")?
This artistic, literary, and philosophical movement championed the artificial, decorative, and fantastical value of art over any didactic, instructive, or practical purpose.
What is Aestheticism?
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."
What is from "The Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray?
A wedding, a ghost crew, a dead bird
What is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
"In [this author's] nature the extremes of vigour and simplicity seemed to meet. Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero; but [he/she] had no worldly wisdom."
Who is Emily Brontë?
I am "a woman, radiant, with smiling lips, with big, dark eyes and an air of listening, waiting for something... divine to happen... that [I] knew must happen... infallibly." I have a garden.
Who is Bertha Young (from "Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield)?
This style of narration attempted to recreate the way real people think by presenting the unfiltered thoughts of a character in an organic, if disorganized, way.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
What is from "Araby" by James Joyce?
Winding streets, an overwhelming question, mermaids singing each to each
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
Although this author's first novel was initially considered by many critics to be "improper" or "coarse," it is now seen as a masterpiece of English literature due in part to its intensely-realized, progressive perspective on gender relations. Its narrator proclaims that "women feel just as men feel."
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
I am the "Titan! to whose immortal eyes / The sufferings of morality / Seen in their sad reality, / Were not as things that gods despise."
Who is Prometheus (from Lord Byron's "Prometheus")?
This concept, attributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, allows for the appreciation of literary art "without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
What is negative capability?
"Though earth and moon were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And Thou wert left alone
Every Existence would exist in thee"
What is from "No Coward Soul is Mine" by Emily Brontë?
Icy caverns, an erupting geyser, a damsel with a dulcimer
What is "Kubla Khan"?
This author's rakish public persona inspired countless fictional characters, including John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Who is Lord Byron?
I am "King of Kings; / Looks on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Who is Ozymandias (from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias")?
Dr. Busonik, a teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, coined this acronym to describe the psychological consequences of modern life.
What is DAD FINIS?
"But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself."
What is from the "Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Brontë?