Sonnets/Macbeth
The meter in which Shakespearean sonnets are written.
What is iambic pentameter?
Name one of the Lake Poets we studied.
Who is William Wordsworth? or Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A story in which another, longer plot is embedded that often introduces similar themes.
What is a framing narrative?
Who is Gwendolen?
"We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict. The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation."
Who is Captain Walton?
The King of Scotland before he is murdered by Macbeth.
Who is Duncan?
He wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads which is considered a manifesto of Romanticism.
Who is William Wordsworth?
Victor's best friend who dies tragically at the Creature's hand.
Who is Henry Clerval?
The man Miss Prism is romantically interested in.
Who is Canon Chasuble ?
"But I don't like the name of Algernon"
Who is Cecily?
The "character" explored in Shakespearean sonnets 127-154.
Who is the Dark Lady?
What Keats called: "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"
What is negative capability?
Which nation does Elizabeth Lavenza come from?
Where/what is Italy?
The food Algernon promises Lady Bracknell when she comes to tea.
What are cucumber sandwiches?
"O, full of Scorpions is my mind..."
Who is Macbeth?
The name of Banquo's son
Who is Fleance?
This poet wrote "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
Who is William Blake?
Name the year in which the edition of Frankenstein we studied (the first edition) was published.
What is 1818?
The father of Wilde's lover and the person he sued for libel.
Who is the Marquess of Queensbury?
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir."
Who is Macbeth?
The second apparition that appears to Macbeth when he confronts the witches in Act 4, Scene 1
What is a bloody child?
Name one of Percy Shelley's poems that we studied (or mentioned).
What is "Love's Philosophy," "To a Skylark," "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind" or "Mont Blanc."
The scientist (or discipline) that Victor's father calls "sad trash."
Who is Cornelius Agrippa? or What is Alchemy?
Which object gives Jack's real name away?
What is a cigarette case?
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways / beside the springs of Dove, /A Maid whom there were none to praise / And very few to love"
Who is William Wordsworth?