Short Selections
Literary Terms
Life of
Dickens
ATOTC
Potpourri
100
This author prompted both Mary Wollestonecraft and Thomas Paine to voice their outraged rebuttals.
Who is Edmund Burke?
100
The story of the tortoise and the hare as a whole is an example of this.
What is allegory?
100
These two stories are said to be semi-autobiographical.
What are David Copperfield and Great Expectations?
100
This was where ATOTC was published.
What is All the Year Round?
100
This work, examining the horrors of the Revolution, is written in a sarcastically cheerful tone.
What is The French Revolution as it Appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement?
200
It is from this larger work that Song of Liberty is excerpted.
What is The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
200
This is a metaphor that extends throughout a piece of literature.
What is a conceit?
200
This is the year Dickens was born.
What is 1812?
200
She was the basis for Lucie Manette's character.
Who is Ellen Ternan?
200
He did not directly observe the French Revolution and thus spurred controversy with his writings.
Who is Edmund Burke?
300
The beginning to this short selection is as follows: "Man is born free and he is everywhere in chains."
What is Rousseau's Social Contract?
300
Repeated phrases, words, sentence structures or syntactical elements.
What is parallel structure?
300
This was Dicken's pen name while writing for the Morning Chronicle.
Who is Boz?
300
The French Revolution and its associated struggles between classes was suggested by Dickens to be similar to this event happening in England at the time of the writing of ATOTC.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Lord Byron was obsessed with this military leader.
Who is Napoleon?
400
He is the Don Juan to whom Lord Byron's poem is dedicated.
Who is Robert Southey?
400
The following is an example of what literary term: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
What is zeugma?
400
His book The French Revolution, A History greatly influenced Dickens' writing.
Who is Thomas Carlyle?
400
Sydney Carton was based off a character Dicken's once played in this play.
What is The Frozen Deep?
400
This is the earliest date referenced in ATOTC.
What is 1757?
500
Thomas Paine alludes to this Herculean labor in the Rights of Man.
What is cleaning the Augean stables?
500
"All hands on deck," is an example of this literary term in which a part is used to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
500
She married Charles Dickens in 1836.
Who is Catherine Hogarth?
500
"Drawn to the Loadstone Rock" as the title of Chapter 24 is an allusion to this work that Dickens greatly admired.
What is Arabian Nights?
500
Rousseau's views on the corruptibility of royalty were very similar to those expressed in this work.
What is Machiavelli's The Prince?
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