Test 2 Flashcards
Yob
Thug, hooligan
Rozzer
Police
Bounder
One whose manner & behaviors are socially unacceptable.
Soliloquy
Talking out loud to self.
Monologue
Talking to someone within earshot.
Up the wooden hill to bedfordshire.
Go upstairs to bed.
Wonky
Unstable, wobbly, crooked, off-center
Ab-dabs
Nervousness, frustration, the shakes
Jam butty
Sandwich (2 slices of bread & butter with jam on top)
Instress & Inscape
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wazzock
Idiot, foolish person
Damp squib
Let down, anticlimax, fiasco
Hooray Henry
Derogatory label for a rich young man given to much public exhibitionism, drunkenness, & other antisocial behavior, all based on an excess of snobbery & self aggrandizement. (uppity snob)
“Dover Beach”
Matthew Arnold
“Mother and Poet”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Modern Love”
George Meredith
“Hymn to Proserpine”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Invictus”
William Ernest Henley
From : “Idylls of the King”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Ulysses”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
Robert Browning
“Caliban upon Setebos”
Robert Browning
“The Speckled Band”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The ‘Gloria Scott’”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Five Orange Pips”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“God’s Grandeur”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Pied Beauty”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“The Windhover”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Carrion Comfort”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Bowdler
Rewrote Shakespeare’s plays, very badly
Dramatic Monologue
“A soul in action”
Demeter & Persephone
Greece
Ceres & Proserpina
Rome
Ariel
Spirit of air (In the Tempest)
Sycorax
Caliban’s mother (In The Tempest)
Instress
Recognition of Inscape in others
Inscape
Landscape inside us. Our connection to God.
Sprung Rhythm
Designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech.
Used by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The common perception of the period
The common perception of the period is the Victorians are “prudish, hypocritical, stuffy, [and] narrow-minded”