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Test 2 Flashcards

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Yob

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Thug, hooligan

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Rozzer

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Police

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Bounder

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One whose manner & behaviors are socially unacceptable.

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Soliloquy

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Talking out loud to self.

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Monologue

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Talking to someone within earshot.

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Up the wooden hill to bedfordshire.

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Go upstairs to bed.

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Wonky

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Unstable, wobbly, crooked, off-center

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Ab-dabs

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Nervousness, frustration, the shakes

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Jam butty

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Sandwich (2 slices of bread & butter with jam on top)

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Instress & Inscape

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Wazzock

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Idiot, foolish person

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Damp squib

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Let down, anticlimax, fiasco

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Hooray Henry

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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)

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“Dover Beach”

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Matthew Arnold

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“Mother and Poet”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“Modern Love”

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George Meredith

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“Hymn to Proserpine”

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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“Invictus”

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William Ernest Henley

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From : “Idylls of the King”

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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“Ulysses”

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”

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Robert Browning

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“Caliban upon Setebos”

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Robert Browning

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“The Speckled Band”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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“The ‘Gloria Scott’”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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“The Five Orange Pips”

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

25
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“God’s Grandeur”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Pied Beauty”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“The Windhover”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Carrion Comfort”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“The Importance of Being Earnest”

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Oscar Wilde

32
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Thomas Bowdler

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Rewrote Shakespeare’s plays, very badly

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Dramatic Monologue

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“A soul in action”

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Demeter & Persephone

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Ceres & Proserpina

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Ariel

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Spirit of air (In the Tempest)

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Sycorax

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Caliban’s mother (In The Tempest)

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Instress

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Recognition of Inscape in others

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Inscape

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Landscape inside us. Our connection to God.

40
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Sprung Rhythm

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Designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech.

Used by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

41
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The common perception of the period

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The common perception of the period is the Victorians are “prudish, hypocritical, stuffy, [and] narrow-minded”

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