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1
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Years of Victorian Era

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1832-1901

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When was universal adult suffrage passed?

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1932

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3
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What did school cost in 1891?

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Free!

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Intended to control the licentiousness the Victorians associated with the revolutions of the 18th century

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Prudery and social order

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What did the Victorians typically question?

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Value of material things, authority, industry, and human life in relation to the natural world

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The belief that the environment is indifferent to its inhabitants

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Naturalism

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How is Return of the Native a prime example of naturalism?

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The heath’s great effects on the characters

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What did late century writers typically focus on?

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The withdrawal from the divine and faith due to science

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2 consistent purposes of Victorian literature

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1) To make readers wonder if reality is whole and satisfying

2) There is order in chaos and bleak reality

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10
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What was the general nationalistic tone?

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England is THE BEST

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What was the Victorian economy like?

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Very prosperous

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What brought the standard of living up for the middle class?

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Cheap, mass-produced goods

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What jobs were available to unmarried women?

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Governess, school teacher

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What type of literature was most common in this era?

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Novels

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15
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Mary Ann Evans

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aka George Elliot

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Marked by elements of the supernatural, love, violence, death

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Gothic

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What tone was Lord Alfred Tennyson known for?

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Melancholy and chaos

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Writer who believed sadness and disorder taught that everything was part of a benevolent plan, making all losses good.

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Tennyson

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What is the tone of Tears, Idle Tears by Tennyson?

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Grieving, desperate and lonely

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What is the central idea in Tears, Idle Tears by Tennyson?

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Nostalgia for a lost lover

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Poem in which Tennyson addresses the idea that modern science’s scrutiny of natural is a threat

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The Eagle: A Fragment

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What is the central metaphor in The Eagle by Tennyson?

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The Eagle as a thunderbolt, symbolizing the power and beauty of nature

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Poem in which Tennyson explores the idea that man understands God through Nature

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Flower in a Crannied Wall

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What is the theme of Flower in a Crannied Wall by Tennyson?

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The simplest form of nature holds the key to the mystery of God

25
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What is the curse in The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson? How does she get around it?

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The Lady cannot look outside her tower to Camelot, but she looks at the reflection in the mirror.

26
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What ultimately happens to the Lady of Shallot?

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She follows Lancelot in a boat and dies

27
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What is the central idea in Tennyson’s Ulysses?

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Though physical strength eventually fades, a sense of adventure and a hunger for knowledge never depletes

28
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What is Tennyson’s purpose in Ulysses?

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Moving forward and braving the struggles of life.

29
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What is the bar in Crossing the Bar symbolic of?

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Death

30
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What is the hopeful end of Crossing the Bar by Tennyson?

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He wishes for no one to mourn him, as he will soon see God

31
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What is the problem of the speaker in Dover Beach by Arnold?

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The world’s waning faith

32
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Which Victorian poet loved sound devices?

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

33
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What is the surface problem in Spring and Fall by Hopkins?

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The leaves falling, Margaret mourns

34
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What is the real problem in Spring and Fall by Hopkins?

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Human mortality

35
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What is Pied Beauty by Hopkins about?

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Praising God for all things spotted

36
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What is the theme of Pied Beauty by Hopkins?

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Individuality is beautiful

37
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What is the tone of Pied Beauty by Hopkins?

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Praising, appreciative, exalting

38
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What form did Robert Browning prefer?

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dramatic monologues

39
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What was Browning’s chief concern in all his writing?

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Subjective morality, people doing what they believe is right

40
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Form where a speaker addresses a listener who does not speak

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Dramatic monologue

41
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Why does the speaker in My Last Duchess by Browning do to his wife?

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Orders her death because she is too flirtatious

42
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When a poem mimics natural speech, what should you look for?

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Iambic pentameter and enjambment

43
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When a thought is continued onto the next line without punctuation

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Enjambment

44
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How is the title of Porphyria’s Lover by Browning ironic?

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He kills her

45
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What is the central idea to Porphyria’s Lover by Browning?

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God doesn’t care what the speaker does, so long as he himself believes it is right

46
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Victorian writer whose style most closely resembles Poe.

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Robert Browning

47
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What is the tone of The Darkling Thrush by Hardy?

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Hopeless, gloomy, isolated

48
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Why does the speaker in The Darkling Thrush by Hardy continue?

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If the bird can find reason to be joyful, it’s the very least he can do.

49
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What is the tone of Channel Firing by Hardy?

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Jocular

50
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What is the central idea of Channel Firing by Hardy?

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Men have been warring pointlessly since the dawn of time

51
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What are the two most important devices in Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave by Hardy?

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Anticlimax and point of view

52
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What are the primary tenets of Victorianism in One and Twenty by Houseman?

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Materialism and prudence

53
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What is the theme of When I Was One and Twenty by Houseman?

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if you give away your heart, you will literally have to pay

54
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What is the extended metaphor in When I Was One and Twenty by Houseman?

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Money and gems

55
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Poems that adapt the structure and spirit of traditional ballads to modern uses

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Literary ballads

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