Drama & Social Criticism
Realism & Late Victorian Fiction
Adventure, Empire & Early Science Fiction
Modernism & Narrative Experimentation
Poetry & War Experience
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In English literature history, Shaw and Wilde are classified under this literary period.  

Late Victorian period

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In English literature history, Hardy’s novels are often connected with this idea that human life is controlled by fate.

Determinism(the philosophical and scientific view that all events, including human actions and decisions, are causally inevitable consequences of preceding causes and natural laws.)

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Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are based on this method of investigation.

Deduction(the logical process of reaching specific conclusions from general premises, or the subtraction of an amount (such as tax or expenses) from a total.)

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This writer is known for short stories such as The Garden Party and psychological themes.

Katherine Mansfield

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In World War I poetry, this theme shows the psychological impact of war on soldiers and society.

War trauma

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This author criticized Victorian morality through witty dialogue and paradoxes in The Importance of Being Earnest. 

Oscar Wilde

2000

This English novelist wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles and is associated with rural England.

Thomas Hardy

2000

This writer is known for The Time Machine, one of the earliest science fiction novels.


H. G. Wells

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This technique presents a character’s thoughts in a continuous flow.

Stream of consciousness(a literary and psychological narrative style that mimics the non-linear, continuous flow of human thought)

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This Welsh poet wrote Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

Dylan Thomas

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A famous Victorian play that critiques social class through language learning.

Pygmalion

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This writer created a fictional region called Wessex in his novels.

Thomas Hardy

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This author wrote The Jungle Book, set in colonial India.


Rudyard Kipling

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This English writer wrote Ulysses, a key modernist novel.

 

James Joyce

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This writer is known for Death of a Hero, a novel about World War I.

Richard Aldington

4000

This writer is known in the textbook for the Aesthetic Movement in literature.

Oscar Wilde

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This author wrote The Forsyte Saga and described the life of an English upper-middle-class family. 

John Galsworthy

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In English literature history, Wells is considered a pioneer of this genre.

Science fiction(the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic scientific or technological progress.)

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This author wrote Mrs Dalloway and focused on a single day in London.

Virginia Woolf

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This literary movement is associated with Irish cultural and literary revival in the late 19th–early 20th century.

Irish Literary Revival

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This writer used Pygmalion to show how language and class influence identity.

George Bernard Shaw

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This literary movement shows life in a realistic way without romantic exaggeration.

Realism

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This English writer created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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This literary movement is known for breaking traditional writing forms in the 20th century.

Modernism

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This Irish poet wrote The Second Coming and is a key figure of Irish literature.

William Butler Yeats