Porphyria's Lover
Pseudoscience
Robert Browning
Mental Illness
Victorian Era
100

This is the name of the Victorian poet who wrote "Porphyria's Lover".

Who is Robert Browning

100

What does the prefix "pseudo-" means?

What is False.

100

What literary era did Robert Browning belong to?

What is the Victorian Era.

100

True/False: You can tell someone has a mental illness just by looking at them.

What is FALSE?

100

How long did Victorian literature last?

What is from 1837 to 1901.

200

What time period did Robert Browning write this poem?  

What is 1836, during the late Romantic period and the beginning of the Victorian era

200

Skull shape = personality called?

What is Phrenology?


200

What other poem did Robert Browning write?

What is My Last Duchess.

200

Used strict, often harsh treatments.

What is Asylums? 

200

What literary movement or style, which focuses on the struggles for equality and respectability is called?

What is Gender and class?

300

What is the weather condition at the start of the poem?

what is Dark and stormy

300

Is this a pseudoscience: Biology?

What is No, biology is a science.

300

what did Robert Browning popularize?

What is Dramatic Monologue.

300

What were some common causes?

What is Stress, sin, heredity, overthinking?

300

Who was the queen during the Victorian era?

Who is Queen Victoria?

400

how does the narrator feel when Porphyria arrives?

 What is Sadness

400

People who Talk to the dead

What is Spiritualism?

400
Where was Robert Browning born?

What is London.

400

The rise of scientific psychiatry and more humane care took place in what time?

What is the Late 1800s?

400

What literary movement or style, which focuses on showing everyday life truthfully ?

What is Realism?

500

The final line of the poem, "And yet God has not said a word!", is an example of this literary device?

What is Dramatic Irony

500

A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method is called?

What is Pseudoscience?

500

What was the name of the famous poet who was Robert Browning's wife?

Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

500

A Victorian husband could have his wife committed to an asylum with little cause simply by being able to pay a sympathetic doctor, especially if she would not do this.

What is obey/listen to her spouse?

500

What is one Victorian Poet

Who are Alfred, Lord Tennyson, or Robert Browning?