Literary Terms
a style of poetry that uses detail to construct visual images that represent the dominant emotion of the poem.
What is a Pictorial?
the proportion of Earth's land mass that belonged to the British Empire by the end of the 1800s.
What is 1/4 (400 million people)?
Scholars debate the actual start date for Modernism, but all agree it had begun by this 1914 historical event.
What is the start of WWI?
This author's Christmas stories were serialized in the Mid-Victorian period.
Who is Charles Dickens?
“Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
Who is Dylan Thomas?
a narration style characterized by an effort to capture the narrator’s thoughts as they come to him/her.
What is stream of consciousness?
The number of subcategories that scholars divide the Victorian period into given its length
What is three? (Early, Mid, Late)
20th century poetry saw the rise of this movement that emphasized hard, clear, precise images.
What is the imagist movement?
This author served as British Imperial Officer in Burma in the 1920s.
Who is George Orwell?
“And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.”
Who is Charles Darwin?
a 19 line poem with 5 tercets (3-line stanzas) followed by a 6th stanza of 4 lines
What is a Villanelle?
The population of London by the end of the Victorian era.
What is 6.5 million people?
Three countries that gained independence from the British Empire in the 1900s
What are Pakistan, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, St. Lucia?
This author's work was initially opposed both by the scientific and religious communities.
Who is Charles Darwin?
“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear.”
Who is Samuel Beckett?
a style of art and literature popularized at the start of the 20th century that seeks to align itself with the lived experience and values of modern industrial life.
What is Modernism?
a feature of periodical publication in the 1800s that had authors publish novels by releasing one chapter a week.
What is serialization?
Largely due to Freud's advances in Psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction explores this
What is consciousness?
This author joined the French underground resistance in the 1940s and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
“And what is knowledge? What are our learned men save the descendants of witches and hermits who crouched in caves and in woods brewing herbs, interrogating shrew mice and writing down the language of the stars?”
Who is Virginia Woolf?
a style that uses exaggeration, irony, humor, and/or ridicule to expose and criticize a group, viewpoint, etc. usually in the realm of politics or current events.
What is Satire?
Oscar Wilde's work ridicules this virtue prized by Victorian society.
What is earnestness?
Passed in 1968, this bill eliminated the requirement for plays to be subject to government censorship.
What is the New Theatres Act?
This author was arrested in 1895 under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.”
Who is Charles Dickens?