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Brit Lit II
British Literature II Final Exam
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
05/02/2011

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Which era saw 1/4 of the world under British control?
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Victorian
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In which era was the “theatre of the absurd” developed?
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Modern/Postmodern
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In which era was stream of consciousness developed?
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Modern/Postmodern
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Which era stressed propriety?
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Victorian
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Which era used Nature as a prompt to understand one’s own reflections?
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Romantic
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Which era was a direct response to the French Revolution?
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Romantic
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Which era responded to the end of England’s colonial rule?
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Modern especially, postmodern
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Which era emphasized spontaneity and individual freedom and valued reflective intuition?
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Romantic
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In which era do we find Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters?
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Victorian
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Which era directly responds to the devastation of WWI?
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Modern especially, postmodern
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In which era are post-colonial voices made part of the British canon?
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Modern/Postmodern especially
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Describe the varieties encompassed in the Modern/Postmodern period
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a. Varieties of writing – genre and experiment
b. Themes included exile, isolation, loneliness
c. Motivated by rapid changes in society, distrust in government/establishments, and increased interest in psychology
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Define Stream of Consciousness
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whatever comes into the character/narrator’s mind.. writing through association
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Define Theatre of the Absurd
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reaction to WWII.. human existence has no meaning or purpose.. communication breaks down into silence
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Define Post-colonial
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AFTER the colonies began to gain freedom.. national movements against the mother country, increased interest and examination of how the mother country has affected the colonies
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Define Free, indirect, narrative style
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lack of introductory expression.. third person with insertion of thoughts
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Which author works for a renaissance of Irish literature and is influenced by the Easter Uprising of 1916?
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W. B. Yeats.
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Which author develops with others the “Theatre of the Absurd”?
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Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde?
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Which author in a memoir writes about feeling shame when viewing herself in a mirror?
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Virginia Woolf
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Which author uses the technique of “epiphany” in developing his stories?
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James Joyce
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Which author writes from biographical experiences of having grown up in a mining village?
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D. H. Lawrence
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Which British author started as an American, born in St. Louis?
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T. S. Eliot
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Which author creates a series of “bog poems” that mark an archaeology of human existence?
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Seamus Heaney
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Which author begins as an English writer but after WWII becomes an American citizen?
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W. H. Auden
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Which author spent at least 10 years protected because a fatwa had been pronounced against him?
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Salman Rushdie
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Which author writes about post-colonial South African experiences?
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Nadine Gordimer
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Know the (general) dates for the three periods of British Literature
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Romantic – 1800-1830… Victorian – 1840-1900… Modern/Postmodern – 1900-onward.
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Define Flat/round character development
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Flat characters are characters who do not change or have the ability to change. Round characters do change and are thus marked by dynamism
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Define Dramatic monologue
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Monologue designed for dramatic presentation that offers great insight into feelings of the speaker, Robert Browning used this
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Define Realism
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Instead of coincidence and supernatural inclusion, realism showed day-to-day life
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Define Pre-Raphaelites
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Pre-Raphaelites wanted to go back before Raphael, believing that art was spiritual, and that art replaced spirituality
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Define Sprung Rhythm
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A poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech… Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Define Oxford Movement
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A reaction against the secularism of the church
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Define Decadence/Aesthetic movement
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Marked by symbolism, art for art’s sake, elevation of nature and primal appetites, inversion of social structures, 1830s-1890s
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Define Sublime
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Awe-inspiring
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Define Byronic hero
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A hero that is both despicable and admirable, defying morals to benefit humanity
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Define Ballad
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A form of verse, often narrative and easily set to music
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Define Lyric
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Poetry that expresses emotion, used as an adjective to describe something with a musical quality
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Define Ode
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A poem that is written about a specific subject or theme
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Define “Frame” as it relates to a story
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The setting and time in which the story is being relayed
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What are some elements that characterized the Romantic era?
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Nature focused as a reflection of the human mind, infused with emotion… vibrant, common subjects… eloquent but not inaccessible… anti-enlightenment, anti-institutional, embracing of paradox, curious, metaphysical
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What are some elements that characterized the Victorian era?
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Moral purpose, domestic propriety, and earnestness
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What are some elements that characterized the Modern/Postmodern era?
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Weakened society, increased interest in psychology, recognition of rapid changes, rise of national movements among colonies, increased emphasis on one’s own perception… exile, loneliness, isolation, experimentation with literary forms
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"...Mont Blanc yet gleams on high."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (Mont Blanc)
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"Should auld acquaintance be forgot.."
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Robert Burns (Auld Lang Syne)
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"...Grrr – there go, my heart’s abhorrence!"
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Robert Browning (Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister)
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"I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..."
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William Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads)
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"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world.."
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James Joyce (The Dead)
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"Thou has no power upon me, that I feel; thou never shalt possess me, that I know; what I have done is done; I bear within; a torture which could nothing gain from me..."
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Lord Byron (Manfred)
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"Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, o Mysterious priest / lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies..."
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John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
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"The sea of faith was once too at the full and round earth’s shore..."
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Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach)
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"I have been fighting a husband who did not exist. He existed all the time."
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D. H. Lawrence (Odour of Chrysathemums)
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"Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests; snug as a gun..."
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Seamus Heaney (Digging)
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"As a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest..."
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Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
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"Peachy fumbled in the mass of rags round his bent waist; brought out a black horsehair bag embroidered with silver thread; and shook therefrom on to my table – the dried, withered head of Daniel Dravot!"
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Rudyard Kipling (The Man Who Would Be King)
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"Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink / water water everywhere and not a drop to drink..."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
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"Morning and evening maids heard the goblins cry..."
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Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market)
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"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills..."
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William Wordsworth (I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud)
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"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree..."
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W. B. Yeats (Innisfree)
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Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere: “The sequel of today unsolders all the goodliest fellowship of famous knights whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep they sleep – the men I loved.”
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Alfred Tennyson (Idylls of the King)
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"April is the cruelest month, breeding / lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / memory and desire, stirring / dull roots with spring rain..."
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T. S. Eliot (The Wasteland)
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"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night..."
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William Blake (The Tyger, Songs of Innocence and Experience)
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"There’s one thing I’ll never understand. Why I always obey you. Can you explain that to me?"
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Samuel Beckett (Endgame)
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"How will they know, when the police stations burn with all the evidence of what has happened now..."
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Nadine Gordimer (The Moment Before the Gun Went Off)
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"...I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-dome of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon in his riding..."
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Windhover)
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