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The Victorian Age was the era of ________________________.

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the “classics” of English novelists

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The word “novel” is derived from novella, which is Italian for ______________________.

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“a new, small thing”

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The first English novel is often considered to be ________________________.

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Robinson Crusoe

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Pamela by Samuel Richardson was important because it added a ________________________ dimension to the novel.

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mental-emotional

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Pride and Prejudice–perhaps the best novel of pre-victorian England–was written by __________________.

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Jane Austen

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The three leading Victorian novelists were : _________________, ________________, and _______________________.

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Charles Dickens; Mary Ann Evans; William Thackeray

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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was known for her _______________ novels.

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psychological

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A social satirist and lover of seventeenth-century literature, _____________________ wrote a significant Victorian novel, _______________.

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William Thackeray; Vanity Fair

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The aim of ________’ novels was social reform through satire and depicting the darker side of British society.

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Dickens

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a person in conflict with the ANTAGONIST

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protagonist

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together with setting and plot form a novel

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characters

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means similar to in medias res, used for setting

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flashback

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forms a plot along the complication and resolution

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exposition

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background data of novel: time, weather, history, etc.

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setting

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plan, or main story, of a novel

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plot

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a long, fictional prose narrative

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novel

17
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the event that begins the resolution of the conflict

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climax

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_____________, author of Silas Marner, used Raveloe as the main setting of the novel.

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George Eliot

19
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In a flashback to Lantern Yard, the reader learns how Silas was framed by his friend _____________________.

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William Dane

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The protagonist and main character of the novel is ____________________.

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Silas Marner

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The attitudes and religious practices of the Raveloe community did nothing to restore Silas’ ________ in God.

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faith

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Silas suffered from _____________________, a condition that neither the people of Lantern Yard nor those of Raveloe understood.

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catalepsy

23
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As the plot unravels, the reader finds out that _________________ is hiding on illicit relationship with ______________ and is Eppie’s real father.

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Godfrey Cass; Molly Farren

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____________________ blackmailed his brother, robbed Silas, and met an untimely death.

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Dunstan Cass

25
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Silas’ life was changed when his money was stolen, but it was even more radically changed with the coming of ________________.

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Eppie

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Both ______________ and Stone Pit were part of a general area known as Raveloe.

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Red House

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The _________ was the social gathering place for the men of Raveloe.

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Rainbow Inn

28
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Dolly Winthrop gave Silas advice on rearing Eppie, and her son _________ later married Eppie.

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Aaron

29
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Silas was shocked by the industrial changes he saw when he revisited ______________________.

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Lantern Yard

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The discoveries at the stone pit formed the ____________ of the subplot.

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climax

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The universal truth portrayed in a classic novel and expressed in such words as “We reap what we sow” is called a ___________.

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theme

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Besides Silas and Godfrey, ___________ is both a protagonist and an antagonist

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God