Checkup 2 Flashcards
The Victorian Age was the era of ________________________.
the “classics” of English novelists
The word “novel” is derived from novella, which is Italian for ______________________.
“a new, small thing”
The first English novel is often considered to be ________________________.
Robinson Crusoe
Pamela by Samuel Richardson was important because it added a ________________________ dimension to the novel.
mental-emotional
Pride and Prejudice–perhaps the best novel of pre-victorian England–was written by __________________.
Jane Austen
The three leading Victorian novelists were : _________________, ________________, and _______________________.
Charles Dickens; Mary Ann Evans; William Thackeray
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was known for her _______________ novels.
psychological
A social satirist and lover of seventeenth-century literature, _____________________ wrote a significant Victorian novel, _______________.
William Thackeray; Vanity Fair
The aim of ________’ novels was social reform through satire and depicting the darker side of British society.
Dickens
a person in conflict with the ANTAGONIST
protagonist
together with setting and plot form a novel
characters
means similar to in medias res, used for setting
flashback
forms a plot along the complication and resolution
exposition
background data of novel: time, weather, history, etc.
setting
plan, or main story, of a novel
plot
a long, fictional prose narrative
novel
the event that begins the resolution of the conflict
climax
_____________, author of Silas Marner, used Raveloe as the main setting of the novel.
George Eliot
In a flashback to Lantern Yard, the reader learns how Silas was framed by his friend _____________________.
William Dane
The protagonist and main character of the novel is ____________________.
Silas Marner
The attitudes and religious practices of the Raveloe community did nothing to restore Silas’ ________ in God.
faith
Silas suffered from _____________________, a condition that neither the people of Lantern Yard nor those of Raveloe understood.
catalepsy
As the plot unravels, the reader finds out that _________________ is hiding on illicit relationship with ______________ and is Eppie’s real father.
Godfrey Cass; Molly Farren
____________________ blackmailed his brother, robbed Silas, and met an untimely death.
Dunstan Cass
Silas’ life was changed when his money was stolen, but it was even more radically changed with the coming of ________________.
Eppie
Both ______________ and Stone Pit were part of a general area known as Raveloe.
Red House
The _________ was the social gathering place for the men of Raveloe.
Rainbow Inn
Dolly Winthrop gave Silas advice on rearing Eppie, and her son _________ later married Eppie.
Aaron
Silas was shocked by the industrial changes he saw when he revisited ______________________.
Lantern Yard
The discoveries at the stone pit formed the ____________ of the subplot.
climax
The universal truth portrayed in a classic novel and expressed in such words as “We reap what we sow” is called a ___________.
theme
Besides Silas and Godfrey, ___________ is both a protagonist and an antagonist
God
