Plots and Characters
Thomas Gradgrind refers to Sissy Jupe as this instead of by her name?
What is girl number 20?
Who said it? "We should have set us down to wet / Right many a nipper kin!"
Who is Thomas Hardy?
He failed his honors examination at Oxford and did not graduate.
Who is A.E. Housman?
The country and the man threatening England's preeminence during the late Victorian Era
What is Otto Von Bismark in Germany?
Name the poem this comes from:
"And I pluck'd a hollow reed. / And I made a rural pen."
What is Introduction to the Songs of Innocence?
Instead of referring to the animal as a "horse," Thomas Gradgrind uses this term.
What is a quadruped?
Alfred Lord Tennyson's book entitled In Memoriam is written for whom?
Who is Arthur Hallam?
In "The Tyger," Blake creates a metaphor that compares the stars to this.
What are warriors?
The philosophical movement basing everything on science and reasoning
What is utilitarianism?
Name the poem this comes from:
"Is my girl happy, / That I thought hard to leave, / And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve?"
What is "Is My Team Ploughing"?
The setting for Hard Times
What is Coketown?
This work by Tennysn is considered to be one of the greatest elegies written in the English language
What is "In Memoriam"?
Tom Dacre, in "The Chimney Sweeper," is this.
What is a new, young chimney sweeper?
"The Man He Killed" speaks out about which war?
What is World War I?
Name the poem this comes from:
"I leant upon a coppice gate / When Frost was specter-gray, / And Winter's dregs made desolate . ."
What is "The Darkling Thrush"?
The number of speakers in "Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?"
What is four?
The literary device being used by Tennyson here:
"On the bald street breaks the blank day."
What is monosyllabic alliteration?
The two titles held by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
What are peer of the realm and poet laureate?
Queen Victoria ruled from _____________ to _____________.
What is 1837-1901?
Name the poem this comes from:
"And by came an Angel who had a bright key, / And he opened the coffins and set them all free;"
What is "The Chimney Sweeper"?
The man who wrote Jude the Obscure before he wrote any poetry.
Who is Thomas Hardy?
In these lines, who is speaking:
"Ah, are you digging on my grave / My loved one? planting rue?"
What is the dead woman?
In this poem, Housman mourns his lost youth.
What is "With Rue My Heart is Laden"?
What is evangelicalism?
Name the poem this comes from
"What the hammer? what the chain, / In what furnace was thy brain"?
What is "The Tyger"?