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Vocabulary
Europe
Daisy Miller
Other Characters
Henry James
100
Inconduite
What is the French word for misconduct?
100
Locations of Geneva and Vevey
What is Switzerland?
100
Daisy's formal name
What is Annie P. Miller?
100
Winterbourne's "studies" in Geneva
What is mistress?
100
This social-science literary genre often categorizes James's work
What is psychological realism?
200
A personal attendant hired to make travel and other arrangements, especially when traveling in foreign countries?
What is a courier
200
Roman fever
What is malaria?
200
Coquette
What is a flirt?
200
Winterbourne's aunt, who sees herself as knowing "the many secrets of that social sway . . . "
Who is Mrs. Costello
200
James's readers labeled him with this criticism after his novel, Daisy Miller.
What is un-American?
300
Tête -a-tête
What is "head-to-head," or private encounters?
300
Location of the Villa Borghese, the Forum, and the Coliseum
What is Rome?
300
Mrs. Costello's one-word description for Daisy and her family
What is vulgar?
300
This character shows indifference to Daisy's fate when he ascertains she will never marry him
Who is Giovanni?
300
This early novel examines Old World prestige, and the needs for intimacy, mutual understanding, and creativity and the differences of class.
What is The Portrait of a Lady?
400
Amoroso
What is the Italian word for admirer?
400
An Italian cavaliere avvocato
What is an Italian honorary knighthood conferred on a lawyer by the government: the lowest rank of nobility?
400
Winterbourne's one-word description of Daisy as a morally depraved person
What is reprobate
400
Commands Daisy to abandon her walk with her Italian friend and enter to enter her carriage
Who is Mrs. Walker?
400
James studied, intensely, the art of this literary genre.
What is the novel?
500
Elle s'affiche
What is: she's making a spectacle of herself?
500
Elle s'affiche
What is: she's making a spectacle of herself?
500
Winterbourne's understand of what Daisy wanted from him
What is esteem
500
Claims : "I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts."
Who is Winterbourne?
500
James shows the complexities of culture most clearly through this character.
Who is Daisy Miller?