Who wrote that?
Victorian Era
Modernists
Misc. Irish Questions
Dystopias
100

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

100

The most celebrated woman poet of the Victorian era

Elizabeth Barret Browning

100

Genre in which T.S. Eliot is known for writing

Modernist poetry

100

Two primary religious groups in Ireland in conflict in the 19th and 20th centuries

Protestant and Catholic

100

The primary crisis in Children of Men

People have been unable to have children for 18 years

200

1984

George Orwell

200

A fancy name for literature that is instructive

Didactic

200

Author of "To Ireland in the Coming Times"

W.B. Yeats

200

Policy of Irish autonomy in policy-making

Home rule

200

The name of the ominous all-seeing figure in 1984

Big Brother

300

"The Second Coming"

W.B. Yeats

300

The most popular poem of the Victorian era

"Dover Beach"

300

The modernist author (that we studied) that won a Nobel Prize

T.S. Eliot (or W.B. Yeats)

300

Irish author that spent most of their adulthood outside of Ireland

James Joyce

300

The kind of mask V wears

Guy Fawkes

400

"The Dead"

James Joyce

400

Characteristics of Victorian culture

Morality, shame, and purity

400

The term for the authorial practice of referencing works by other writers/poets in a work

Allusion (or intertextuality)

400

Title of the book from which "The Dead" is an excerpt

Dubliners

400

The building V blows up at the beginning of V for Vendetta

Parliament

500

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

T.S. Eliot

500

The location of a notable famine in the 1840s-1850s

Ireland

500

Modernist literary device used in "The Lady in the Looking-Glass"

Stream of consciousness

500

Author associated with Aestheticism

Oscar Wilde

500

Where George Orwell was born

India