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Final Exam Questions Part 2 Flashcards

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What did Newman firmly oppose?

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All attempts to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools

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Tennyson’s poetry was deepened and enriched by what?

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The death of his best friend

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Who is the Pilot in Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”?

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“The divine and unseen who is always guiding us”

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Who was the late- Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?

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Matthew Arnold

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List the two areas in which Thomas Carlyle has his greatest impact on Victorian England.

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  1. Religious thought

2. Social criticism

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What new poetic genre did Robert Browning create?

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Dramatic monologue

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What most affected Christina Rosetti’s writing?

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17th century Anglican devotional poets

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Most of Lewis Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as _____________.

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Parodies

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What is Hardy’s attitude toward peasantry?

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“Noble” rustics on contented pagans

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Thomas Hardy’s “The Drakling Thrush” reflects what aspects?

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The lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miraculous from Christianity

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Hopkin’s “sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm patter of what earlier type of poetry?

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Old English Poetry

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List the true statements about A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying young”.

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  1. The youth is praised for dying young and keeps his honor even in death.
  2. Fames dies more quickly than beauty does
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In “The Kingdom of God”, Thompson says modern man cannot see angels because?

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Man’s redeemed nature prevents him from seeing them

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Kipling’s “The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” was said to be what form of literature?

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Tract

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In Kipling’s story, according to the doctor, what caused McGoggin’s conversion?

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Overwork

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Who as founder of modern psychology helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

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Sigmund Freud

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Name the philosophy that maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period.

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Rationalism

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What is the intellect position most characteristic of the modern period?

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Existentialism

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The typical modern poem relies on what?

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Rhythm

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According to the modern writer, what is fatal to art?

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Didacticism

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21
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The moon imagery in Yeat’s “Adam’s Curse” foreshadows what?

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The disillusionment at the end of the poem

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Yeat’s believed that answers for life were found in what?

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Art

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Joyce’s “Ulysses” uses which method of development?

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Stream of consciousness

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24
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In Joyce’s “Araby”, why is the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?

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His uncle was late

25
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Lawrence particularly despises the bourgeois’ love of what?

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Sports

26
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What does Virginia Woolf intend the road to symbolize in “Three Pictures”?

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Life

27
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In Woolf’s “Three Pictures”, what is the narrators response to the first response?

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Satisfaction

28
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In “Feuille D’ Album” what does Ian purchase in his effort to meet the girl?

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An egg

29
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What does the “tall tree” symbolize in MacNeice’s “The Truisms”?

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The final maturing of the son

30
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In Katherine Mansfield’s stories, what literary element is of supreme importance?

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Atmosphere takes precedence over plot

31
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Why can’t the mother comfort the father in Robert Grave’s “Coronation Address”?

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She does not take into account her husband’s feelings toward the matriarchy

32
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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

Life is tragically absurd and illusions give only false comfort.

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“Three Pictures”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

Any beautiful fine accomplishment requires diligent work

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“Adam’s Curse”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”

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“Ulysses”

35
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To “vindicate the ways of God to man”

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“Essay on Man”

36
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Who wrote “Essay on Criticism”?

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Alexander Pope

37
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Who wrote “Coronation Address”?

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Robert Graves

38
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Who wrote “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?

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William Wordsworth

39
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Who wrote “Winter”?

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James Thompson

40
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Who wrote “When I Was One and Twenty”?

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A. E. Housman

41
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Who wrote “The Deserted Village”?

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Oliver Goldsmith

42
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Who wrote “The Tyger”?

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William Blake

43
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Who wrote “A Red, Red Rose”?

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Robert Burns

44
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Nationalist poet who often wrote in dialect

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Robert Burns

45
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Upon becoming a Jesuit priest, burned all his poetry

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Gerald Manley Hopkins

46
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Called “the English Chekhov”

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Katherine Mansfield

47
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Complied and edited the Dictionary of the English Language

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Samuel Johnson

48
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Poet Laureate

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John Dryden

49
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Took part in a romantic elopement

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Robert Browning

50
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

After trying to reform Anglicanism, converted to Catholicism

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John Henry Newman

51
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Showed great talent, but died of tuberculosis at 26

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Jonathan Swift

52
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Word Bank: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, John Henry Newman, and Jonathan Swift.

Showed great talent, but died of tuberculosis at 26

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John Keats

53
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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

Spiritual fulfillment comes through achieving unity with all of God’s creation.

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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

All earthly vanity and ambition will eventually fall prey to time.

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“Ozymandias”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

Determination in meeting the challenges of death

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“Prospice”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

The loss of religions validity

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“Araby”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

The remarkable power of God

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“Wesley’s Journal”

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Wordbank: “Adam’s Curse”/ “Essay on Man”/ “Oxymandias”/ “Prospice”/ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”/ “Tables Turned”/ “Three Pictures”/ “Ulysses”/ “Wesley’s Journal”

The superiority of Nature to books as a moral guide

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“The Tables Turned”

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