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During the Victorian Age, what class was increasing and lives improving?

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The middle class

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What years does the Victorian Age include?

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1832-1901

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What was a common misconception about the Victorian Age?

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The people in that time period were stuff, complacency, hypocritical, and prudish

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Who became queen in 1837, at age 18, and how long did she rule?

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Victoria, 64 years

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What did the queen emphasize?

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Moral behavior

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What was the Victorian age a time of?

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Overseas expansion and domestic reform

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What is the Oxford dictionary?

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A compile of definitive record of histories, uses, and meanings of English words

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What is euphemism? Give an example.

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Mild, indirect, or vague terms substituted for ones that are harsh or offensive; chicken breast > white meat

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What was a coined word during the Victorian Age?

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Telephone

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Why was slang popular in the lower class?

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They could converse safely in he presence of outsiders, including the police

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Because more people could read during the Victorian Age, what was published?

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Books magazines and newspapers

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Why were steam ships and railroads important during the Victorian Age?

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They revolutionized the transportation of goods and people, making travel quicker, cheaper and more comfortable

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Which charitable organization was founded during the Victorian period?

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Salvation Army

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What is Realism?

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Writers sought to capture every day life as it really was lived

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The Victorian Age was not known for what?

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Drama

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Tennyson was considered a what?

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A celebrity

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When did Tennyson first write poetry and who did he publish some works with?

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Child and his brother

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Why did Tennyson leave Cambridge University without a degree?

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He was poor

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What did he do from 1850 until his death?

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Poet laureate

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Tennyson’s poems were a master of what?

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Sound devices and rhythms

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What was Tennyson engaged with?

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Politics, religion, and scientifically issues of his day

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What is a narrative poem?

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It tells a story

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What is the mood of the”Lady of Shalott”?

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Peaceful, calm, slow, and sad

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What was symbolism in the “Lady of Shalott”?

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Lady-artist
Weaving-inspiration
Tower-workshop
Mirror-restricted perspective on life
Lancelot-distraction
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What is one message of the “Lady of Shalott”?

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Isolation is un satisfying for the poet, but participation destroys the art and the artist

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What is the main extended metaphor in “Crossing the Bar”?

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Crossing into heaven

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What is the speakers attitude of death in “Crossing the Bar”?

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He’s okay that he’s going to die, and asks that no one morn his death

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Who is the Pilot in “Crossing the Bar”?

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God, it is capitalized

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The Victorian Period is known as an Age of what?

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Novels

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Novels were seem as a source of what?

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Entertainment

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How did novels focus on social concern?

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It exposed social ills

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Who often wrote novels portraying the troubles of the lower class?

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Charles Dickens

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What is a historical novel?

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Fiction combined historical facts with the imagination

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What is a Gothic novel?

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Horror stories

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What is a detective novel?

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A novel that focuses on mystery

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What is Realism replaced with?

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Naturalism

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What is naturalism?

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Promoted a grimmer, more scientific fiction in France

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“Dover Beach” who is the speaker?

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Matthew Arnold (author)

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“Dover Beach” who is the listener

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Marguerite

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“Dover Beach” what is the situation?

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Humans are leaving the faith

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“Dover Beach” what does the speaker hang on to?

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Everyone will rejoin the religion

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“Dover Beach” how does the speak feel about religion?

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He is ver religious that he notices others abandoning the faith

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“To Marguerite, Continued” what is the theme?

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Humans are separating from each other, becoming islands

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How are Arnold’s two poems imagery similar?

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They both take place along the sea

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem where the speak is address a silent speaker

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Who was Robert Browning fascinated with?

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Mentally unstable people

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“My Last Duchess” what happened to the Duke’s last wife?

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He had her killed

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Why did the duke kill his wife in “My Last Duchess”?

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She loved envy thing equally

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Why does the Duke think his wife should have loved him most? Why wouldn’t he tell her that her constant smiling bugged him?

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He gave her his last name; he didn’t want to stoop down to her level

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What type of sonnet is Sonnet 43? Who did Elizabeth write it to?

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Petrarchan, she wrote it to Robert Browning

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What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s father response to her love forRobert? What was her response?

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He didn’t like him, didn’t want any of his children to marry; she eloped

51
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Who was Gerard Manly Hopkins?

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He was a priest who wrote poems in his journal, and they weren’t published until his death

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What does Hopkins suggest in his poem “Spring and Fall”?

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That Margaret, who is crying over dead leaves, is crying for h own death though she doesn’t know it yet

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