Victorian Age

Question 0

During the Victorian Age, what class was increasing and lives improving?

Answer 0

The middle class

Question 1

What years does the Victorian Age include?

Answer 1

1832-1901

Question 2

What was a common misconception about the Victorian Age?

Answer 2

The people in that time period were stuff, complacency, hypocritical, and prudish

Question 3

Who became queen in 1837, at age 18, and how long did she rule?

Answer 3

Victoria, 64 years

Question 4

What did the queen emphasize?

Answer 4

Moral behavior

Question 5

What was the Victorian age a time of?

Answer 5

Overseas expansion and domestic reform

Question 6

What is the Oxford dictionary?

Answer 6

A compile of definitive record of histories, uses, and meanings of English words

Question 7

What is euphemism? Give an example.

Answer 7

Mild, indirect, or vague terms substituted for ones that are harsh or offensive; chicken breast > white meat

Question 8

What was a coined word during the Victorian Age?

Answer 8

Telephone

Question 9

Why was slang popular in the lower class?

Answer 9

They could converse safely in he presence of outsiders, including the police

Question 10

Because more people could read during the Victorian Age, what was published?

Answer 10

Books magazines and newspapers

Question 11

Why were steam ships and railroads important during the Victorian Age?

Answer 11

They revolutionized the transportation of goods and people, making travel quicker, cheaper and more comfortable

Question 12

Which charitable organization was founded during the Victorian period?

Answer 12

Salvation Army

Question 13

What is Realism?

Answer 13

Writers sought to capture every day life as it really was lived

Question 14

The Victorian Age was not known for what?

Answer 14

Drama

Question 15

Tennyson was considered a what?

Answer 15

A celebrity

Question 16

When did Tennyson first write poetry and who did he publish some works with?

Answer 16

Child and his brother

Question 17

Why did Tennyson leave Cambridge University without a degree?

Answer 17

He was poor

Question 18

What did he do from 1850 until his death?

Answer 18

Poet laureate

Question 19

Tennyson’s poems were a master of what?

Answer 19

Sound devices and rhythms

Question 20

What was Tennyson engaged with?

Answer 20

Politics, religion, and scientifically issues of his day

Question 21

What is a narrative poem?

Answer 21

It tells a story

Question 22

What is the mood of the”Lady of Shalott”?

Answer 22

Peaceful, calm, slow, and sad

Question 23

What was symbolism in the “Lady of Shalott”?

Answer 23

Lady-artist
Weaving-inspiration
Tower-workshop
Mirror-restricted perspective on life
Lancelot-distraction

Question 24

What is one message of the "Lady of Shalott"?

Answer 24

Isolation is un satisfying for the poet, but participation destroys the art and the artist

Question 25

What is the main extended metaphor in "Crossing the Bar"?

Answer 25

Crossing into heaven

Question 26

What is the speakers attitude of death in "Crossing the Bar"?

Answer 26

He's okay that he's going to die, and asks that no one morn his death

Question 27

Who is the Pilot in "Crossing the Bar"?

Answer 27

God, it is capitalized

Question 28

The Victorian Period is known as an Age of what?

Answer 28

Novels

Question 29

Novels were seem as a source of what?

Answer 29

Entertainment

Question 30

How did novels focus on social concern?

Answer 30

It exposed social ills

Question 31

Who often wrote novels portraying the troubles of the lower class?

Answer 31

Charles Dickens

Question 32

What is a historical novel?

Answer 32

Fiction combined historical facts with the imagination

Question 33

What is a Gothic novel?

Answer 33

Horror stories

Question 34

What is a detective novel?

Answer 34

A novel that focuses on mystery

Question 35

What is Realism replaced with?

Answer 35

Naturalism

Question 36

What is naturalism?

Answer 36

Promoted a grimmer, more scientific fiction in France

Question 37

"Dover Beach" who is the speaker?

Answer 37

Matthew Arnold (author)

Question 38

"Dover Beach" who is the listener

Answer 38

Marguerite

Question 39

"Dover Beach" what is the situation?

Answer 39

Humans are leaving the faith

Question 40

"Dover Beach" what does the speaker hang on to?

Answer 40

Everyone will rejoin the religion

Question 41

"Dover Beach" how does the speak feel about religion?

Answer 41

He is ver religious that he notices others abandoning the faith

Question 42

"To Marguerite, Continued" what is the theme?

Answer 42

Humans are separating from each other, becoming islands

Question 43

How are Arnold's two poems imagery similar?

Answer 43

They both take place along the sea

Question 44

Dramatic monologue

Answer 44

A poem where the speak is address a silent speaker

Question 45

Who was Robert Browning fascinated with?

Answer 45

Mentally unstable people

Question 46

"My Last Duchess" what happened to the Duke's last wife?

Answer 46

He had her killed

Question 47

Why did the duke kill his wife in "My Last Duchess"?

Answer 47

She loved envy thing equally

Question 48

Why does the Duke think his wife should have loved him most? Why wouldn't he tell her that her constant smiling bugged him?

Answer 48

He gave her his last name; he didn't want to stoop down to her level

Question 49

What type of sonnet is Sonnet 43? Who did Elizabeth write it to?

Answer 49

Petrarchan, she wrote it to Robert Browning

Question 50

What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father response to her love forRobert? What was her response?

Answer 50

He didn't like him, didn't want any of his children to marry; she eloped

Question 51

Who was Gerard Manly Hopkins?

Answer 51

He was a priest who wrote poems in his journal, and they weren't published until his death

Question 52

What does Hopkins suggest in his poem "Spring and Fall"?

Answer 52

That Margaret, who is crying over dead leaves, is crying for h own death though she doesn't know it yet