Victorian Authors
The author of Great Expectations, he wrote about an outward environment of realism often using sensory details.
Who was Charles Dickens?
The first letter of a word, usually a consonant, repeated multiple times; used generally as a way to memorize a poem (Hint: Beowulf)
What is an allusion?
Who is Queen Victoria?
Poem by William Blake, now known as the unofficial national anthem of Great Britain.
What is Jerusalem?
What is Imperialism?
When writing Middlemarch, George Eliot used this offshoot of realism that used the characters' minds to tell the story
What is psychological fiction?
Touch, Taste, Sight, Touch, Smell...these are the details that provide imagery and substance that Charles Dickens called upon when writing Great Expectations.
What are sensory details?
Fought between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty, this War resulted in Hong Kong becoming a part of the British Empire
What is the Opium War?
Romantic authors sought to blaze their own trail instead of emulating _____________; the beloved authors of the aristocracy who preferred Greece and Rome to England
What is Neoclassicism?
This is the correct spelling of your teacher's family name.
S-L-E-I-K (pronounced S-like)
Victorian authors stepped away from Romanticism (nature/simplicity) and decided to reflect the everyday realities of their time. A literary genre that includes naturalism and psychological fiction.
What is realism?
BANG! This poetic device uses words that describe the sound that they are making.
What is onomatopoeia?
Era that began in Great Britain and saw great innovations make their way around the world in terms of production...though at a human cost.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Though by no means a pioneer in the era, Robert Burns wrote in the Scottish ________ to bring romanticism to the north in To a Mouse.
What is a dialect?
A Latin phrase that translates to "remember death (finds us all)."
What is momento mori?
He may have been a great student and gone to Oxford, but he failed to obtain his degree and instead dropped out. He went on to become a professor of classics at UCL.
Who is A.E. Housman?
Poetic device wherein the author gives life-like qualities to otherwise inanimate objects. (Hint: William Wordsworth)
What is personification?
Waterloo Bridge and Trafalgar Square are two major landmarks within London, named after British victories over which French would-be Emperor?
Who was Napoleon?
Who were the Lake Poets?
The term "romanticism" was coined on mainland Europe by writers from this country during the Sturm und Drang movement.
Where is Germany?
This Russian author was well-known is addressing the offshoot of Realism known as Naturalism. He wrote The Darling.
Who was Anton Chekhov?
Poetic technique that uses the repetition of words or grammatically similar phrases to illustrate a point (theme).
What is parallelism?
During the Industrial Revolution, many workers lost their jobs to new machines. This group led a riot, smashing the machines that replaced them; a term commonly used today to describe people wary of technology.
Who were the Luddites?
Married to Percy Bysshe Shelley, this young writer became one of the pioneers of horror with her 1818 story, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
Who was Mary Shelley?
London has several well-known bridges. William Wordsworth wrote a poem about this one that links the South Bank to Parliament.
What is Westminster Bridge?