Checkup 2 Flashcards
The _________________ attempts to observe and express life as it actually is.
realist
The poet-playwright who led the Irish Renaissance and won a Nobel prize was __________________.
W.B. Yeats
A Shropshire Lad typifies the carpe diem theme of ___________________.
A.E. Housman
____________ is a novel by the Nobel prizewinning father of the modern psychological novel, Joseph Conrad.
Lord Jim
Nobel prizewinner _______________ wrote The Forsyth Saga and introduced everyday English to the stage.
John Galsworthy
Masefield (“Sea-Fever”), de la Mare (“The Listeners”), and Brooke (“The Soldier”) were romantic ____________________.
Georgians
Disillusionment after World War I gave rise to ____________________.
modernism
The __________ technique, developed by Virginia Woolf, was used by James Joyce in his masterpiece, Ulysses.
stream-of-consciousness
by Thomas Hardy, a Wessex novel
The Return of the Native
by socialist and satirist, George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
by Katherine Mansfield, author of “slice-of-life” stories
The Garden Party
by Lytton Strachey, father of modern biography
Eminent Victorians
radio play by Welsh word craftsman, Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
by leading modernist, T.S Eliot (later a Christian)
The Waste Land
by Sir Winston Churchill, Nobel prizewinner
The Second World War
