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Conrad + Heart of Darkness
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Literature
10th Grade
01/10/2012

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Term

Who were Conrad's parents?

 

What was their nationality?

Definition

Apollo Korzeniowski and Ewa Bobrowska

 

Polish

Term

When was Joseph Conrad born?

 

Where did the name "Konrad" come from?

Definition

1857

 

Adam Mickiewicz’s patriotic dramatic poem, ‘‘Dziady’’

Term
After being arrested for six months in Warsaw, to where did the Russians exile Apollo and family?
Definition
Vologda, Russia (May 1863)
Term

What disease did Ewa contract?

 

Where did they move for her health?

 

While there, what failure did they learn of?

Definition

tuberculosis

 

Chernikhov

 

Polish Insurrection of 1863

Term
What class did Conrad's parents belong to?
Definition
the szlachta class (land-owning gentry)
Term
What pamphlet did Apollo write condemning Russia?
Definition
"Poland and Muscovy"
Term
Which 7 countries did Eric Hobsbawm say owned 25% of land between 1876-1915?
Definition

Great Britain

France

Italy

Belgium

Spain

Germany

Portugal

Term

Who was:

 

Teofila Bobrowski

Tadeusz Bobrowski

Stephen Buszczynski

Definition

Teofila: Conrad's grandma, legal guardian from 1870-3

 

Tadeusz: Conrad's uncle, financial + emotional support

 

Stephen: Apollo's close friend, cared for Conrad while he was in boarding school

Term
What does Apollo's epitaph read?
Definition
"Victim of Muscovite Tyranny"
Term

In 1874, Conrad left high school and Austrian Poland for a career at sea in __________ 

 

His biographer ________ argues that Marseilles was Conrad’s only option.

 

Definition

Marseilles, France.

 

 Zdzislaw Najder

Term
What were three reasons Conrad's only option was to leave for France?
Definition

1. Conrad could not return to Polish Ukraine, as he would have been arrested.

2. He could not stay in Austria because no citizenship = no military service

3. France  already served as a traditional refuge for thousands of Poles.

Term
Anaphora
Definition

the repitition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

 

("Of life and liberty / Of truth and justice")

Term
Apostrophe
Definition
an address to an imaginary/absent person
Term
Asyndeton
Definition

the omission of conjunctions

 

("He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect")

Term
chiasmus
Definition

a reversal in the order of words in otherwise parallel phrases

 

("He went to the town ; to the town went she"

Term
Gerund
Definition

the -ing form of a verb functioning as a noun

 

("Running is fun.")

Term
Idiom
Definition

an idiom whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its elements

 

("to kick the bucket")

Term
Litotes
Definition

an understatement, esp. when the affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

 

("not bad at all")

Term
metonymy
Definition

figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object/concept for that of another related object/concept

 

("the bottle" for "strong drink")

Term
pathetic fallacy
Definition

personification

 

("the angry sea")

Term
polysyndeton
Definition

the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession

 

("He ran and jumped and climbed and flew.")

Term
syllogism
Definition
"All A is C ; All B is A ; therefore all B is C."
Term
synecdoche
Definition

figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the special is used for the general, or vice versa

 

("ten sails" for "ten ships")

Term
synesthesia
Definition

a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of the other

 

(when a sound produces the visualization of a color)

Term
Conrad served the ________ family aboard the ships the ________ and ________
Definition

Delestang

 

Mont Blanc ; Saint Antoine

Term

What ship did Conrad smuggle guns on?

 

Why was he smuggling them?

Definition

The Tremolino

 

To aid the Carlist Revoltion in Spain

Term
Which friend of Conrad's found him when he shot himself in the chest?
Definition
Richard Fecht
Term
Conrad's first British ship was the _____
Definition
The Mavis
Term
Norfolk sailors nicknamed Conrad what?
Definition
"Polish Joe"
Term
After his suicide attempt, Conrad joined the _____ marine to avoid the Russian draft
Definition
British
Term
Conrad called this his "first British ship", due to his terrible experiences on the Mavis 
Definition
Skimmer of the Sea
Term
Conrad hired a shipping agent to find him a post on this boat, which only paid a shilling a month
Definition
Duke of Sutherland
Term
Conrad clashed with the Captains of these two ships
Definition
The Mavis and Europa
Term
While studying for his second mate exam, Conrad met his good friend __________.
Definition
G. F. W. Hope
Term
Conrad's time on the Loch Etive, with a deaf first mate and difficult captain, was recalled in this book
Definition
Mirror of the Sea
Term
Conrad lied about being hospitalized after sailing on the _________
Definition
Annie Frost
Term
This coal ship spontaneously combusted near Sumatra
Definition
The Palestine
Term
Captain MacDonald, of this ship, gave Conrad his only negative evaluation after Conrad told a doctor that MacDonald was drunk
Definition
Riversdale
Term

Joseph Barron, a black crewman, inspired the character James Wait in this book

Definition
The Nigger of "Narcissus"
Term

Conrad suffered from _________, or exhaustion

of the central nervous system.

Definition
neurasthenia
Term

Conrad's experiences aboard this ship in the Malay archipelago served as the basis for his Malay novels

Definition
The Vidar
Term
This Captain was Conrad's inspiration for the character Kasper in Almayer's Folly
Definition

William Charles Olmeijer

Term

This ship was Conrad's first and only command

Definition
The Otago
Term
Conrad's first love, who was already engaged
Definition

Eugenie Renouf

Term

Conrad received a three-year post on the

Congo since the prior captain, ___________,

was murdered

Definition
Johannes Freisleben
Term

Conrad's "aunt", ___________, recommended him to _________ to command the Roi des Belges

 

 

Definition

Marguerite Poradowski

 

Albert Thys

 

Term
Seat of governance in the Congo
Definition
Boma
Term

 

The last maneuverable city by river in the Congo

 

Definition
Matadi
Term
Conrad viewed this Irish explorer, who he met at Matadi, as a hero
Definition
Robert Casement
Term

Unfriendly manager for the Kinshasa branch of Société Belge

Definition
Camille Delcommune
Term
The last ship on which Conrad ever sailed
Definition
The Adowa
Term
This passenger read Almayer's Folly aboard the Torrens
Definition
W. H. Jacques
Term

Conrad’s first masterpiece

Definition
The Nigger of "Narcissus"
Term
experimentalist novel ; initially a failure
Definition
Nostromo
Term
last book featuring Marlow
Definition
Chance
Term

Conrad’s only tale to be set in London; revolves around a scheme to blow up the Greenwich Royal Observatory; later adapted into Sabotage by Hitchcock

 

Definition
The Secret Agent
Term
Conrad's most autobiographical work of fiction
Definition
Under Western Eyes
Term

Conrad's only significant WWI work and the masterpiece of the end of his life 

Definition
The Shadow-Line
Term

Replaced Marguerite as a source of reassurance

Definition
Edward Garnett
Term

Conrad sent Outcast to this person and got Spoils of Poynton and a lunch invitation back

 

Definition
Henry James
Term
This short story became "Heart of Darkness"
Definition
An Outpost of Progress
Term

Set in the Malay; introduces the framing narrative format that Conrad later used in Heart of Darkness 

 

 

Definition
The Lagoon
Term

Conrad’s first story to be printed in Blackwood's Magazine 

 

 

Definition
‘‘Karain: A Memory’’
Term

Prequel to Lord Jim ; features Marlow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition
‘‘Youth: A Narrative’’
Term

 

Conrad’s first important political essay, centering on the Russo-Japanese war

 

Definition
‘‘Autocracy and War’’
Term
Almayer's Folly and Outcast were compared to these two author's work
Definition

Rudyard Kipling

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

Term

A recognized poet critic who wrote an essay, "Decivilized"

Definition

Alice Meynell

Term
These four books comprise Conrad's Malay writings
Definition

Almayer's Folly

An Outcast of the Islands

The Rescue

Victory

Term
Conrad ultimately married this plain woman
Definition
Jessie George
Term
Richard Burton explored Africa, but was "_______"
Definition
"Afrophobic"
Term

French journalist who wrote weekly pamphlets spreading information he gained from inspecting cargoes of ships on the Congo

 

Definition
Edmund Morel
Term

Who were these characters based on?

 

Great Man Himself

Director of Companies

Accountant

Lawyer

Definition

Great Man = Albert Thys

DoC = G. F. W. Hope

Accountant = Keen

Lawyer = Mears

Term
Works referenced in Heart of Darkness
Definition

Goethe's Faust

Italian commedia dell'arte

Bible

Greek Fates

Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term
2 tenets of symbolism
Definition

1. Life is mysterious

2. Artists can preserve life’s mysteries through symbols

Term

Claimed Conrad's style opposed the "vigorous, direct, effective" style of Rudyard Kipling

 

Said Conrad was "too misty"

Definition

John Masefield

 

E. M. Forster

Term

Which modern critics have issues with Conrad's:

 

1. sexism

 

2. racism

Definition

1. Johanna Smith

 

2. Chinua Achebe

Term

Conrad stated that the only review that affected him painfully was this person's review of Chance

 

 

.

Definition
Henry James
Term

Conrad wrote a play, _________ , based on "Tomorrow," but it failed

 

 

Definition
One More Day
Term

Peter Brooks asserts that the novella is a detective story ‘‘____ _______"

Definition
"gone modernist"
Term
The entire story is an _______ __________, or flashback
Definition
extended analepsis
Term

The primary comic relief comes from the cannibals and

the usage of ‘‘______’’ English

Definition
"pidgin"
Term

 Promoter and translator of Conrad’s works

Definition
Andre Gide
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