Novels and society
This Austen heroine refuses to accept Mr. Collins simply because marriage would offer security.
Who is Elizabeth Bennet?
In Tennyson’s Victorian retelling of an Arthurian legend, this isolated woman weaves images of the outside world.
Who is the Lady of Shalott?
This Modernist novelist explores Clarissa’s inner life in Mrs Dalloway and women’s writing in A Room of One’s Own.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
In 1984, the face of this leader makes the Party’s surveillance feel personal and constant.
Who is Big Brother?
“I waited a thousand years for the lesson to end” uses this deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This escaped convict, rather than Miss Havisham, secretly finances Pip’s new life.
Who is Magwitch?
After the Lady looks directly toward Camelot, this object cracks, signalling the curse’s arrival.
What is the mirror?
In this Brooke's poem, an imagined foreign grave becomes a lasting part of England.
What is The Soldier?
In Animal Farm, this hardworking horse’s loyalty makes him especially vulnerable to exploitation.
Who is Boxer?
A scene places a rich banquet beside hungry families, emphasizing the difference between them through this device.
What is juxtaposition?
This novel’s orphaned governess tells her own story and seeks love without surrendering her moral independence.
What is Jane Eyre?
Even though The Lady of Shalott uses poetic rhythm and imagery, its sequence of events also makes it this kind of poem.
What is a narrative poem?
The choking soldier and gas attack in this Owen poem challenge the idea of a glorious death in war.
What is Dulce et Decorum Est?
This pig becomes Napoleon’s rival and is driven from the farm, after which he is blamed for the farm's problems.
Who is Snowball?
Read “The hall fell silent — the warrior rose.” The marked pause within the line is called this.
What is a caesura?
Pride and Prejudice examines courtship, status, and accepted social behaviour, making it an example of this kind of novel.
What is a novel of manners?
This Wilde protagonist calls himself Ernest in London, while maintaining a different identity in the country.
Who is Jack Worthing?
A narrator moves through sensations, memories, and unfinished associations. This Modernist technique follows the flow of the mind.
What is stream of consciousness?
The pigs’ growing privileges undermine this founding ideal of the animals’ rebellion.
What is equality?
“The more I learn, the less I know” appears contradictory but expresses a deeper insight. This makes it this device.
What is a paradox?
Jane Eyre and Great Expectations both trace a young person’s growth through experience. This German term names that kind of novel.
What is a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel?
Wilde’s title sounds like a man’s name while also referring to sincerity. This double meaning depends on this language feature.
What is a pun on Ernest and earnest?
A talented woman lacks uninterrupted time and an income. Woolf argues that creative opportunity also requires these practical supports.
What are financial independence and private space to work?
When Napoleon’s rise and the farm’s events correspond to political leaders and historical events, the story works on this second level.
What is political allegory?
Shakespeare gives the audience knowledge of Iago’s lies while Othello believes him. This gap in knowledge creates this effect.
What is dramatic irony?