Checkup 2 Flashcards
The Victorian Age was the era of ________________________.
the “classics” of English novelists
The word “novel” is derived from novella, which is Italian for ______________________.
“a new, small thing”
The first English novel is often considered to be ________________________.
Robinson Crusoe
Pamela by Samuel Richardson was important because it added a ________________________ dimension to the novel.
mental-emotional
Pride and Prejudice–perhaps the best novel of pre-victorian England–was written by __________________.
Jane Austen
The three leading Victorian novelists were : _________________, ________________, and _______________________.
Charles Dickens; Mary Ann Evans; William Thackeray
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was known for her _______________ novels.
psychological
A social satirist and lover of seventeenth-century literature, _____________________ wrote a significant Victorian novel, _______________.
William Thackeray; Vanity Fair
The aim of ________’ novels was social reform through satire and depicting the darker side of British society.
Dickens
a person in conflict with the ANTAGONIST
protagonist
together with setting and plot form a novel
characters
means similar to in medias res, used for setting
flashback
forms a plot along the complication and resolution
exposition
background data of novel: time, weather, history, etc.
setting
plan, or main story, of a novel
plot
a long, fictional prose narrative
novel
the event that begins the resolution of the conflict
climax
_____________, author of Silas Marner, used Raveloe as the main setting of the novel.
George Eliot
In a flashback to Lantern Yard, the reader learns how Silas was framed by his friend _____________________.
William Dane
The protagonist and main character of the novel is ____________________.
Silas Marner
The attitudes and religious practices of the Raveloe community did nothing to restore Silas’ ________ in God.
faith
Silas suffered from _____________________, a condition that neither the people of Lantern Yard nor those of Raveloe understood.
catalepsy
As the plot unravels, the reader finds out that _________________ is hiding on illicit relationship with ______________ and is Eppie’s real father.
Godfrey Cass; Molly Farren
____________________ blackmailed his brother, robbed Silas, and met an untimely death.
Dunstan Cass
