Authors
British author famous for the use of stream of conciousness
Who is Virginia Woolf?
Gothic novel that warned against the dangers of the new industrial age and the desire to control nature.
What is "Frankenstein"?
Romanticism showcasednew challenges and themes brought about this event, which influenced authors from this period, both amazed at or horrified by the new scientific findings and accelareted urbanism, violence and social decline in English cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Lady Macbeth receives a letter written by her husband, in which he tells her about the three witches and the prophecies. She then uses the following figure of speech:“the raven that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan”.Classify it.
What is a metaphor?
Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to "unsex" her in order to murder Ducan king. From the GIA values, which one does she corrupt in both her mind and soul?
What is dignity/integrity?
Eric Blair used a pen name in his most famous books.
Who is George Orwell?
In the early 18th century, Jonathan Swift's ... served as social criticism by satirizing political ideas and practices that Swift felt were either wrong or downright ridiculous.
What is "Gulliver's Travels"?
José de Alencar was one of the main names of this literary school in Brazil, with romances such as "Senhora" and "Iracema."
What is Romanticism?
“Sonnet 43”, by Elizabeth Barret Browning, is a classic example of the _______________ sonnet style, with a rhyme scheme of abbca.
What is the Petrarchan/Italian sonnet?
Honor, mercy, courage, valour, fairness, protection of the weak and the poor, and in the servant-hood of the knight to his lord.
What is chivalric code/chivalry?
Stephen Dedalus was his pen name and character in many of his books. Irish author of the masterpiece "Ulysses", master of stream of consciouness.
Who is James Joyce?
A middle-aged woman who, through a series of flashbacks and meetings with old friends and acquaintances, reviews the most significant moments of life. She is the hostess to a party.
Who is Clarissa Dalloway/Mrs. Dalloway?
Literature becomes less centered in Europe/Britain and overflows to the commonwealth countries and former colonies.
What is Commonwealth Literature?
“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”.
The lines were written by romantic poet Lord Byron. By the use of LIKE in the sentence, you can identify a figure of speech.
What is simile?
By using stream of consciouness, authors can delve into the deepest thoughts of a characters. Which GIA value describes such a connection to the very core of a human soul?
What is integrity?
His theories on the human mind were translated into English and his works influenced modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.” Which character from "1984" says this?
Who is Winston Smith?
The events following the two horrific world wards influenced this era in literature - which we still live on.
What is post-modernism?
Technique in which the thoughts, feelings and impressions of a character pop-up in the narration in a random and rather chaotic way, resembling how they really happen in our own mind.
Stream of consciousness.
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself". This premise invites and allows the reader to enter Mrs. Dalloway's mind, a new and special offering the author provides her reader. Which GIA value could describe Virginia Woolf's invitation/genius?
What is honor?
Victorian author who was largely influenced by the Romantic Movement and wrote books about the situation of women in 19th-century Britain.
Who is Jane Austen?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." The first sentence from "Pride and Prejudice" shows a type of figure of speech to satirize the situation of men and women in 19th century England.
What is situational irony?
Avant-garde, new techniques, new genres, the emergence of the novel and short stories - they all take place in this period.
What is modernism?
She was the master of stream of consciouness in Brazil.
Who is Clarice Lispector?
In both "Animal Farm" and "1984", Orwell depicts made-up yet realistic societies, either to directly criticize Stalinism or to make a critique of all forms of totalitarianism. In "1984", torture is something defended by the government. This shows a lack of ... to human rights.
What is respect?