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| What are the dates of the Restoration? |
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| Who initiated the Popish Plot? |
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| When was the Glorious Revolution? |
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| What were the aims of the Bill of Rights of 1689? |
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| To limit the powers of the Crown, give legal rights to individuals |
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| Who is the last Stuart monarch? |
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| Explain the term “Enlightenment.” |
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| Movement that rejected past traditions and emphasized rationalism |
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| Who chartered the Royal Society of London? |
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| Who were the Tories and the Whigs? |
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| Tories – land-owning, supported king / Whigs – merchants and financers, supported Parliament |
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| Who was England’s first “prime minister”? |
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| Developed Neo-Classicism, rules of decorum, writing included politics |
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| What is a comedy of manners? |
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| Makes fun of Victorian obsession with manners |
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| Who were the Key Restoration playwrights? |
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| Wicherly, Congreve, Etheridge |
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| What were the trends in literature after 1750? |
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| Obsession with rules, rankings, and standards |
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| By the late 17th Century, what were the characteristics of written English? |
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| It had become stable and modernized |
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| Who is credited for making the English language natural and speechlike? |
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| What was influential in shifting English to its present style? |
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| Rise of Science, the need for clarity in writing |
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| What was the last literary genre to arrive in the British Isles? |
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| What is the target of Dryden’s attack in Absalom and Achitophel? |
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| What is the focus of Dryden’s MacFlecknoe? |
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| What are the key characteristics of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels? |
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| Universal satire, attacks science in Laputa, wickedness of mankind |
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| Examine both the problems and solutions mentioned in “A Modest Proposal.” |
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| Examine both the form and the tone of Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. |
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| Mock epic, in cantos, combination of trivial and elevated |
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| What are the dates of the Romantic Age? |
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| What was the most significant political event of the Romantic Age? |
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| What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution? |
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| Agrarian to Industry, wealth based on money not land, rise of middle class |
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| What are the characteristics of the British government during the Romantic Age? |
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| Against extremists, political repression, halted changes for three decades |
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| What encouraged the enormous literary activity during the Romantic Age? |
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| What are the chief characteristics of the Romantic Age? |
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| Focus on remote and natural, emotion over reason |
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| What writer had the greatest influence on European Romanticism? |
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| What are the characteristics of Romantic Poetry as spelled out in Lyrical Ballads? |
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| Say what theory poetry should be and demonstrate it |
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| What are the characteristics of the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge? |
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| Wordsworth – simple as deep meaning / Coleridge – supernatural as realistic |
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“Tintern Abbey”:
Who is the speaker?
What is the occasion?
What is the speaker’s attitude toward nature? |
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Wordsworth himself
Revisiting the banks of the Wye
Now has a deeper understanding of nature |
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”:
What is the poet’s intention?
What is the function of the albatross?
What is the poem’s theme? |
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To convey the importance of appreciating nature
To symbolize the mariner’s guilt
Sin and retribution and the eventual rebirth of the mariner |
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| “Ozymandias”: Who was Ozymandias? Explain the irony of the inscription. |
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| A past ruler / “look on my works and despair” one would only despair because nothing remains |
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“Ode to a Nightingale”:
What are the various means of escape?
Immortality? |
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Alcohol, poetry, death
The song of the nightingale has always been heard throughout history |
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”:
Who is the speaker?
What is the situation?
What is the theme? |
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Keats himself (unnamed)
The speaker is standing looking at the urn with pictures of: a group of men pursuing a group of women, a piper under a tree next to his lover, and a group of villagers
“Beauty is truth and truth is beauty.” Time is frozen on the urn |
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| What are the key character traits of Queen Victoria? |
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| Hard Work, Manners, Social Respectability |
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| What are the dates of the Victorian Period? |
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| What are the provisions of the Reform Bill of 1832? |
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| Extends right to vote to middle class (10,000 paid for home or rent) |
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| What Victorian writer relished the fast-paced expansion of the age? |
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| Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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| What are the titles of the various periods of the Victorian Age? |
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| A Time of Troubles / Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy / Decay of Victorian Values |
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| What were the Corn Laws and how were they repealed? |
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| High tariffs on imported grain / by Sir Robert Peel, a Tory minister |
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| Who was England’s enemy in the Crimean War? |
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| What were the key moral and philosophical movements of the Victorian Age? |
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Chartism – sought universal male suffrage, got the secret ballot, paid officials, annual elections
Methodism – founded by John Wesley, it came from Evangelism
Evangelism – extremely influential in everyday society, shaped many laws and social customs
Utilitarianism – evaluating everything in terms of greatest happiness for the most people
Social Darwinism – belief that people were wealthier because they were better |
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| What was the Victorian attitude toward women? |
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| [Left blank on sheet - kind of obvious] |
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| What was the status of the industrial workers of the Victorian Age? |
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| Could do little to combat the power of the middle and upper classes, laissez faire economics |
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| What are the major characteristics of the 20th Century? |
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| New technology improves life, yet writing focuses on tragic and fragmented experience (war) |
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| What are the dates of World War I in Europe? |
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| What were the central political and economic events of the years between the two wars? |
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| What becomes of the British Empire after World War II? |
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| Commonwealth of Nations, overseas possessions became independent |
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| What are the characteristics of the Victorian novel? |
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| Meant to be completely realistic |
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| What characteristics did the writers of the Victorian Age share? |
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| Sought to create a new literary tradition |
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| What were the contributions to art and literature of John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold? |
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| Wrote about social and economic reform, primarily concerning the middle class |
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| What were the results of the conflict between democracy and literature? |
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| Democracy led literature to expand rapidly, decline of poetry as demand for novels by masses |
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| What are the key characteristics of the literature of the 1890s? |
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| Emphasized England on the decline, no longer the prosperous nation it had been |
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| What are the characteristics of “imagism”? |
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| Belief that hard, clear, precise imagery is essential to poetry, uses everyday speech |
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“Ulysses”:
Who is the speaker?
Who is Telemachus? |
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Ulysses
Ulysses’s wise, yet unadventurous son, an able ruler who will inherit rule |
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“My Last Duchess”:
“Who is the speaker?
What is the occasion?
What was the nature of the relationship between the Duke and his former Duchess? |
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The Duke
Arranging a dowry
The Duke could not stand how happy and friendly she was, eventually leading to her death |
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“Dover Beach”:
Who is the speaker?
What is the occasion?
What are the characteristics of the modern human condition?
Where does the speaker see consolation? |
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A man to his lover
They are in a cottage overlooking the English Channel
Confusion, darkness, loss of religion
Trust in each other |
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“God’s Grandeur”:
How is man depicted?
How is nature depicted? |
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Destroying nature
Used up |
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“The Second Coming”:
What problems of the 20th Century does the poem address?
What does the “rough beast” signify? |
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The progression to anarchy and chaos
The soul of the world |
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| What is the view of contemporary civilization in Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”? |
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| Many individuals including Eliot himself lack any substance, they are filled with nothing |
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| Who is the speaker in Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”? |
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| What are the dominant characteristics and themes of Thomas’ “Fern Hill” and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”? |
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| Not merely accepting death, continuing to live |
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