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Victorian Era
Emily Dickinson
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Era was named for this person.
What is Queen Victoria.
100
Lived in what small town?
What is Amherst, MA.
100
Sound words.
What is onomatopoeia.
100
Having the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration.
100
Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from this illness.
What is post pardem depression.
200
Women were not allowed to show this part of their body.
What is ankles or wrists.
200
Went to what girls' school?
What is Mount Holyoke.
200
A dash used in a line of poetry.
What is caesura.
200
Capitalizing in odd places.
What is irregular capitalization.
200
A cure Gilman was given to help relieve her stress was called this.
What is the rest cure.
300
Women's fashion was dangerous for this reason.
What is could puncture organs, displace or collapse organs, cause women to faint.
300
Often used end rhymes that almost rhymed called this.
What is slant rhyme.
300
Continuing a thought onto the next line of poetry.
What is enjambment.
300
Repetition of consonant sound.
What is consonance.
300
The bedroom in The Yellow Wallpaper symbolically represented this.
What is the confines of Victorian society.
400
Three rights men had that women did not.
What is right to own property, vote, sue or divorce.
400
Used language unique to her region called this.
What is New England colloquialisms.
400
Making up words.
What is coined words.
400
Having two or more meanings.
What is ambiguity.
400
The Story of an Hour was written by this female author.
What is Kate Chopin.
500
Victorian Age lasted between these years.
What is 1835-1900.
500
Often wrote in the first person, known as this.
What is subjectivity.
500
Seeming opposite ideas.
What is paradox.
500
Giving an abstract concept physical qualities.
What is concreteness.
500
The three types of irony.
What is verbal, situational, and dramatic.