Miterm Study Guide Answers Flashcards
(94 cards)
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Who wrote Kubla Khan?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2
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Who wrote Darkness?
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Lord Byron
3
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Who wrote Frankenstein?
A
Mary Wollstoneraft Shelley
4
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Who wrote She Walks in Beauty?
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Lord Byron
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Who wrote Ozymandias?
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Percy B. Shelley
6
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Who wrote the solitary reaper?
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William Wordsworth
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Reference to another work or the past or significant persons/events
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Allusion
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Who is Capt. Robert Walton?
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Robert Walton is a polar explorer who meets Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic.
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what we smell
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Olfactory Imagery
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“Kubla Khan”
“Christabel”
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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—events in a work predict
later events
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Foreshadowing
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—giving human qualities to inhuman or inanimate objects
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Personification
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3 types of irony
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- Verbal
- Situational
- Dramatic
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—what is said is the opposite of
what is meant
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VERBAL IRONY
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—what happens is the
opposite of what is expected
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SITUATIONAL IRONY
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—the audience knows
something that the characters do no
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DRAMATIC IRONY
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Who wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
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Samual Taylor Coleridge
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a comparison that says one thing is
another thing
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Metaphor
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one thing represents something
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Symbolism
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Stereotypical or cliché characters
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Stock Characters
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level of word sophistication
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Diction
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what we taste
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Gustatory Imagery
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a poem about morning/the dawn
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Aubade
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Who is the “old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king” mentioned in “England in 1819”?
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King George III
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Which of these women was the author of A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN?
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Invented a version of a light bulb
Thomas Edison
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Who played Baron Frankenstein in THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and five sequels?
Peter Cushing
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A comparison using like or as
Simile
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“Darkness"
"She Walks In Beauty"
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
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Mary Shelley wrote FRANKENSTEIN in part because of a ghost story challenge proposed by which writer?
Lord Byron
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repetition of identical consonant
sounds, usually at the beginning of words
Alliteration
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-Involves a close reading of the text
-all information for interpretation must be found WITHIN the work itself
Formalism
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what we hear
Auditory Imagery
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excessive pride, arrogance, or overconfidence
Hubris
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A poem that celebrates the dead
Elegy
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Who played the Monster in the 1931 film adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN?
Boris Karloff
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Karl Mark the haves” and “the have-
nots”
Marxist Theory
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Which collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published in 1798 and is often credited with launching the Romantic Era in English poetry?
Lyrical Ballads
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Died of Tuberculosis age 25
John Keats
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Frankenstein, blind man
De Lacey
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Sister of Robert Walton in Frankenstein
Margaret Saville
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The Study of Electricity
Galvanism
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works that are considered to be the most important, influential, or exemplary within a particular tradition, culture, or time period.
Canon
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What term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
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Which of these poems is an example of an apostrophe?
London, 1802
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Who wrote the Second Coming?
William Yates
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What event do some critics claim marks the end of the Romantic Era, though Romantic works continue to be produced even now?
Queen Victoria ascends to the throne of England
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The line "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is an example of which literary device?
Personification
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In what country does "The Solitary Reaper" seem to be set?
Scotland
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that "Kubla Khan" came to him in a dream.
True
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In which poem does Geraldine appear?
Christabel
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What kind of bird does the title character kill in THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER?
Albatross
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True or False: Ozymandias is another name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II (aka Ramses the Great)
True
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Which of these Romantic poets was trained to be a physician and surgeon?
John Keats
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Which of these poems involves a vision of the end of the world?
Darkness
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Which of these women was a mathematician and a pioneer in the field of computer programming?
Ada Byron Lovelace
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How many speakers are there in "Ozymandias"?
3
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She walks in Beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies" is an example of what literary device?
Simile
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True or False: Formalist literary theory insists that literature must be interpreted in its historical and biographical contexts.
False
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What is Robert Walton's quest?
Explore the North Pole
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What is Robert Walton's quest?
Explore the North Pole
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True or False: Victor Frankenstein is an established physician and surgeon when he creates the Monster.
False
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Which character is executed because of a murder the Monster commits?
Justine Moritz
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Victor creates a female companion, but she rejects the Monster because he is so ugly.
False
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Which character is an old blind man?
De Lacey
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Which of these writers became the longest-serving Poet Laureate in English history (42 years)?
- also wrote The Charge of Light Brigade
Alfred Tennyson
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Which of these writers was trained to be a physician?
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Which of these writers wrote Sonnets From the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh?
- and wrote How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Which of these writers is best known for composing dramatic monologues?
- also wrote My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Browning
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True or False: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning had a famously troubled and unhappy marriage
False
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What does Sherlock Holmes call Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Bohemia"?
The Woman
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"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" takes place during what holiday season?
Christmas
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In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," what is the speckled band?
A snake
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In addition to Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle created which other literary character?
Prof. Challenger
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True or False: Arthur Conan Doyle made very little money from his Sherlock Holmes tales.
False
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True or false: Modernism was a revolt against Romanticism in the arts
True
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Which war is associated with the rise of Modernism?
World War I
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The Realist movement in Drama originated in what region?
Scandinavia
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True or False: Naturalism tends to focus on poor/working class characters, but Realism tends to focus on wealthy and middle class characters
True
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Which of the following is considered a World War I poet?
Wilfred Owen
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Which poem incorporates allusions to the Bible and Egyptian mythology?
“The Second Coming”
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“Sir, I exist” is a line from which work?
“A Man Said to the Universe”
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True or False: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made very little money from his Sherlock Holmes stories
False
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In what story does Irene Adler get the best of Holmes?
“A Scandal in Bohemia” written by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Emphasis on the surreal/absurdism
Element of MODERNISM
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Highly experimental with form
Element of MODERNISM
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Strongly Unsentimental
Element of MODERNISM
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Previously unacceptable subject matter/language becomes acceptable
Element of MODERNISM
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Emphasis on collective thought/society
Element of MODERNISM
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Loss of identity/individualism
Element of MODERNISM
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Emphasize technology, usually in a negative way
Element of MODERNISM
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Realistic dialogue (including slang)
Element of MODERNISM
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Emphasis on realistic characters/plot
Element of MODERNISM
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Reaction to World War I and the sense of despair/disillusionment
Element of MODERNISM
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Descended from anti-Romantic movements
MODERNISM
