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
