Characters
What is the name of Elizabeth Bennett’s friend?
Charlotte Lucas
Modernism?
Modernism in literature signifies a dynamic cultural shift that took root in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This wave of change was a direct rebuttal to the established norms of Victorian literature and the romanticized vision of nature, favoring instead a more disjointed and subjective depiction of human nature and experience.
Who wrote “Porphyria’s Lover”?
Robert Browning
Where does Mr. Bingley live?
Netherfield Parks
What are the two sisters name in the Goblin Market?
Lizzie and Laura
Allegory
A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.
Who wrote “Leda and Swan”?
William Butler Yeats
What objects are sold at the Goblin Market?
A variety of fruits
Who is Fra Lippo Lippi?
Browning depicts a 15th-century real-life painter, Filippo Lippi.
Dramatic Monologue
A poem in which the voice of a historical or fictional character speaks unmediated by any narrator, to an implied though silent audience
Who wrote “Dover Beach”?
Mathew Arnold
What is the occasion for Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain”?
At the memorial service (inappropriate though) of the Titanic disaster
Who is Tiresias?
A central figure, even a guide in “The Waste Land”.
Likely an Austrian aristocrat Marie Larisch, whom Eliot had once met.
What is realism?
The realism art movement of the nineteenth century was a dramatic shift from the exotic and poetic Romanticism that dominated the art world in the decades prior.
Who wrote “Easter 1916??
William Butler Yeats
The poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is a response to which historical event?
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War in October 1854.
Who is Richard Hannay?
Hero of the film, The 39 Steps.
What is free indirect discourse?
Merging of two perspectives
Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flow’d that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flow’d that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
Christina Rossetti, “The Goblin Market”
Who is T.S. Eliot’s friend and editor?
Ezra Pound