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1
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What is the structure of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Kraken?

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A sonnet with an extra line

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What did Victorians like to use the sea for?

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Its power and mystery

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What was the first sea-based influence for Victorian folklore and superstition?

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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4
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What did Tennyson become?

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Poet Laureate

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How were Victorians influenced by the Romantics?

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Fascination with the unknown and the sublime

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What sector were Victorian discoveries taking place in?

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Science

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7
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What is the format of My Last Duchess?

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Dramatic Monologue

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What does R Browning critique in MLD?

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Objectification of women
Abuse of power

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Where is MLD set?

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Renaissance Italy

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Why were the Victorians fascinated with Renaissance Italy?

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They were patrons of the arts

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Who was the real duke in MLD?

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Duke of Ferrara
Alfonso 2 d’Este

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Who was the Duke in MLD first wife and when did she die?

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Lucrezia di Cosmo de Medici
3 years into the marriage

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13
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How old were the Duke and first Duchess?

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He was 25
She was 14

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14
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Who did the Duke want as his next wife?

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The daughter of The Holy Roman Empire

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15
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What were R Browning’s social beliefs?

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Feminist and critical

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16
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How old was Emily Bronte when she composed Spellbound?

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19

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What was Bronte’s character like?

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Stubborn and secretive

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18
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What was Bronte’s pseudonym?

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Ellis Bell

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19
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What factors make Bronte’s work Romantically influenced?

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Emotive, love, nature, imagination and death

20
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What was Bronte’s fantasy land?

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Gondal

21
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Where was Bronte happiest?

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Secluded Yorkshire

22
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Why didn’t Bronte fit the ideal Victorian woman?

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She had a head for logic and capability for argument

23
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What format is Remembrance by Emily Bronte?

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An elegy

24
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Who are the subjects of Remembrance

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Queen Rosina Alcona
King Julius Brenzaida

25
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What was significant about the title Remembrance?

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A common title amongst male writers of the time (Byron, Shelley)
Placed her in discourse with men

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What was common at the time of Emily Bronte’s writing?

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Untimely and early death

27
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What was Bronte’s father and where did they live?

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Vicar
Haworth Parsonage

28
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How old was Christina Rosetti when she wrote Song?

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18

29
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What did Rosetti focus her works on?

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Mortality, religious devotion, complexities of women’s lives in conservative Victorian society

30
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What was Rosetti diagnosed with? And what was the effect of this?

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Graves Disease
She was a vivacious child but a formal and controlled adult

31
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What did Rosetti fear about herself?

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She would die an early death

32
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What were Rosetti’s religious beliefs?

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High Church Anglican

33
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What happened to Rosetti when she was 14?

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Nervous breakdown meaning she became home educated

34
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Why did Rosetti break off an engagement?

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He became a Roman Catholic

35
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What poem is about Judgement Day?

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The Kraken

36
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What is judgement day?

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Christ judges every person and separates the believers from the non-believers

37
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What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s childhood like?

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Sickly child
Controlling father

38
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Who ‘saved’ E Browning from her life?

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Robert Browning

39
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What did Elizabeth and Robert Browning do?

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Elope
Had a miracle child at 40 (Elizabeth)

40
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What is the structure of sonnet 43? What does this show?

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Petrarchan Sonnet
Strong love

41
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What kind of relationship did the Brownings have?

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Egalitarian

42
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What was Gerard Manley Hopkins self-created metre?

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Sprung Rhythm

43
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Why did Hopkins’ family move to Hampstead?

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Proximity to nature was vital for a healthy, wholesome, religious upbringing

44
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What religious profession did Hopkins choose, alienating him from his friends and family?

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Catholicism
Jesuit Priest

45
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What condition do doctors suspect Hopkins had which made his work so anguished?

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Bipolar or unipolar depression

46
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What was Hopkins worried about?

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Destruction of nature via industrialisation

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