The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The most celebrated woman poet of the Victorian era
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Genre in which T.S. Eliot is known for writing
Modernist poetry
Two primary religious groups in Ireland in conflict in the 19th and 20th centuries
Protestant and Catholic
The primary crisis in Children of Men
People have been unable to have children for 18 years
1984
George Orwell
A fancy name for literature that is instructive
Didactic
Author of "To Ireland in the Coming Times"
W.B. Yeats
Policy of Irish autonomy in policy-making
Home rule
The name of the ominous all-seeing figure in 1984
Big Brother
"The Second Coming"
W.B. Yeats
The most popular poem of the Victorian era
"Dover Beach"
The modernist author (that we studied) that won a Nobel Prize
T.S. Eliot (or W.B. Yeats)
Irish author that spent most of their adulthood outside of Ireland
James Joyce
The kind of mask V wears
Guy Fawkes
"The Dead"
James Joyce
Characteristics of Victorian culture
Morality, shame, and purity
The term for the authorial practice of referencing works by other writers/poets in a work
Allusion (or intertextuality)
Title of the book from which "The Dead" is an excerpt
Dubliners
The building V blows up at the beginning of V for Vendetta
Parliament
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
T.S. Eliot
The location of a notable famine in the 1840s-1850s
Ireland
Modernist literary device used in "The Lady in the Looking-Glass"
Stream of consciousness
Author associated with Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde
Where George Orwell was born
India