TS Elliot
Eliot was born in this city in the state of Missouri on Sept. 26, 1888.
What is St. Louis?
A European war between several countries over nationalistic rivalries and resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians and soldiers at its conclusion.
What is World War 1?
"I grow old I grow old" is an example of this technique.
What is "repetition"?
This poem begins with a first stanza written in Italian.
What is "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'?
Giving non human objects human quailites.
What is "personification"?
Eliot attended this university from 1906-1909, but left for a while and returned in 1911 and remained there until 1914.
What is Harvard University?
A historical era in England that was marked by high moralistic attitudes and the growth of British imperialism.
What is the Victorian Era?
"The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes" is _________
What is "personification"?
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky,
Like a _________ etherized upon a table;
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole.
What is "synecdoche" or "metonymy"?
This is the last university Eliot attended, and he attended for only a year since he left to marry his wife.
What is Oxford?
The poem "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is described as a ________, that is a "poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker’s history and psychological insight into his character."
What is "dramatic monologue"?
In the lines "Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, / I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter," the poem makes a reference to the biblical prophet John the Baptist. This is an example of _____________
What is "allusion"?
In the room the women come and go
Talking of ___________.
What is "Michelangelo"?
A short quotation at the beginning of a book, poem or chapter that suggests its themes.
What is "epigraph"?
This branch of Christianity is also known as the Church of England, and Eliot converted to this religion in June of 1927.
What is the Anglican Church?
Experimentation, Symbolism, fragmentation, stylistic experimentation, stream of consciousness, themes of alienation, free verse, imagery.
They are hallmarks of ______ used in Eliot's poems.
A. romanticism C. modernism
B. classicism D. existentialism
What is "C. modernism"?
"a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax, and rough grammar"
What is "stream of consciousness"?
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
What is "death"?
A figure of speech in which an object, text, circumstance or historical event is referred to covertly or indirectly to force the reader to draw comparisons in their mind.
What is "allusion"?