Checkup 2 Flashcards
The _________________ attempts to observe and express life as it actually is.
realist
The poet-playwright who led the Irish Renaissance and won a Nobel prize was __________________.
W.B. Yeats
A Shropshire Lad typifies the carpe diem theme of ___________________.
A.E. Housman
____________ is a novel by the Nobel prizewinning father of the modern psychological novel, Joseph Conrad.
Lord Jim
Nobel prizewinner _______________ wrote The Forsyth Saga and introduced everyday English to the stage.
John Galsworthy
Masefield (“Sea-Fever”), de la Mare (“The Listeners”), and Brooke (“The Soldier”) were romantic ____________________.
Georgians
Disillusionment after World War I gave rise to ____________________.
modernism
The __________ technique, developed by Virginia Woolf, was used by James Joyce in his masterpiece, Ulysses.
stream-of-consciousness
by Thomas Hardy, a Wessex novel
The Return of the Native
by socialist and satirist, George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
by Katherine Mansfield, author of “slice-of-life” stories
The Garden Party
by Lytton Strachey, father of modern biography
Eminent Victorians
radio play by Welsh word craftsman, Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
by leading modernist, T.S Eliot (later a Christian)
The Waste Land
by Sir Winston Churchill, Nobel prizewinner
The Second World War
by science fiction writer, H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
by G.K. Chesterton, conservative essayist and novelist
Father Brown mystery novels
by Beatrix Potter, author-illustrator
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by C.S. Lewis, leading 20th-century Christian author
The Screwtape Letters
synonym for interlude
interval
synonym for unconscious
unaware
synonym for myth
story
synonym for precedent
example
synonym for hypocrisy
pretense
