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*Kings and Queens of England/The Evolution of English
Anglo-Saxon Period: 17 Questions
The Works: Beowulf
Study:
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“The Anglo-Saxon Period” (orange)
The Anglo-Saxon Period Quiz
Textbook
Your notes
Be Sure to Know:
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Dates (Anglo-Saxon Period, Beowulf)
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Plot of Beowulf, Beowulf characters, themes
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people, things to know – this is ONLY an overview.
Celts
epic
Beowulf
Julius Caesar
Romans
caesura
Anglo-Saxons
kenning
invaders in chronological order
alliteration
Germanic language
metonymy
Alfred the Great
synecdoche
heroic poetry
heroic ideal
elegiac poetry
pagan vs. Christian beliefs
Edward the Confessor
boasting
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The Medieval Period: 20 Questions
The Works:
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The Canterbury Tales - The General Prologue
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“Lord Randall”
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“Get Up and Bar the Door”
Study:
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“The Medieval Period” (blue)
The Medieval Period Quiz
textbook
your notes
Be sure to know:
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plots of works
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themes of all works
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dates of Medieval Period
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people, things to know – this is ONLY an overview.
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William I
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movable-type printing press
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Battle of Hastings
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Chaucer
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feudalism and the hierarchy
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King Arthur
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Thomas Becket
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folk ballad
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Wars of the Roses
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heroic couplet
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Canterbury
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direct characterization
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Black Death
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indirect characterization
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Middle English
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The English Renaissance Part I: 63 Questions
The Works:
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Spencer’s Sonnet 75
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Shakespearean Sonnets 12, 18, 29, 60, 116, 130, 138
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
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“Meditation 17”
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Holy Sonnet 10
Study (historical background, Spencer, Shakespearean Sonnets): 38 Questions
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“The English Renaissance Part I” (pink)
“Poetic Meter and Scansion”
Be sure to know:
SOAPS
Dates of Renaissance Part I and Elizabethan Age
Shakespearean Sonnet Packet nneWorksheets (the ones I gave out
to help
you study)
Martin
Luther
The English Renaissance/Poetry/Sonnet Quiz
Wars of the Roses
Your notes
Tudor monarchs
Textbook
Henry VIII’s break from church
rhyme schemes of types of sonnets
meter / types of feet
authors, themes, main ideas of all works
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Study (Hamlet): 14 Questions
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Your notes, including Hamlet notes given in class
Quotations
climax
Your graded writing assignments
pdf of the play on website
Be sure to know:
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Hamlet dates—year written, year
of publication
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plot of Hamlet, Hamlet characters
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quarto/Folio
Overview of Terms. Be able to apply all.
Antagonist
Aside
Allusion
Climax
Characterization
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Imagery
monologue
Interior monologue
Motif
Metaphor
Simile
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
in medias res
Pun
Mood
Foreshadowing
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Tragedy
Tragic Flaw
Foil
Theme
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“The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
“That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. How the knave jowls it to the ground, as if ‘twere Cain’s jawbone, that did
the first murder!”
“O, treble woe / Fall ten times treble on that cursed head / Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense / Deprived thee of!
Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
“O, speak to me no more! / These words, like daggers, enter in my ears. / No more, sweet Hamlet!”
“As if he had been loosed out of hell / To speak of horrors—he comes before me.”
“This above all, to thine ownself be true, / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man. /
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!
“No, no! the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet! / The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.”
“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s
fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’
Sundays.”
“(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on) / That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
/ With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake…”
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,”
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?”
“My lord, I will be ruled; / The rather, if you could devise it so / That I might be the organ.”
“I doubt it is no other but the main, / His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.”
“A little more than kin, and less than kind!”
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
“Lo, here I lie, / Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poisoned. / I can no more. The King, the King’s to blame.”
“The single and peculiar life is bound / With all the strength and armor of the mind / To keep
itself form noyance; but much more / That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests / The lives
of many.”
“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable!
in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And
yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.”
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
“None wed the second but who killed the first.”
“O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword, / The expectancy and rose
of the fair state, / The glass of fashion and the mold of form, / The observed of all observers—quite, quite down! /
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That sucked the honey of his music vows, / Now see that noble and
most sovereign reason / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; / That unmatched form and feature of
blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me.”
“The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plast’ring art, / Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it / Than is my deed to my most
pained word. / O heavy burden!”
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!”
“Not so, my lord. I am too much i’ the sun.”
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Study: Metaphysical Poetry / John Donne: 11 Questions
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3
your notes
“more Renaissance Part I Poetry” syllabus (green)
o Vocabulary (above the line). Be able to apply all.
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Metaphysics
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Metaphysical poetry
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Lyric poetry
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Conceit
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Paradox
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” handout (front and back)
textbook
Be sure to know:
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facts from John Donne
paragraph and
biography in textbook
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main ideas / themes of
all works
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Dates/Numbers for Review
In the box below each, provide the significance.
12
499-1066
1606
700
1066-1485
14
1485-1625
1603
1600
4
30
1623
1558-1603
1000
154
1623
4
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The English Renaissance Part I: Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Robert Herrick: 17
Questions
The Works:
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“On My First Son”
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“Still to be Neat”
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“Song: To Celia”
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“On My First Daughter”
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“To John Donne”
Study:
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“To His Coy Mistress”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
your notes and annotations
more Renaissance Part I Poetry syllabus-below the line (green)
“On My First Daughter” and “To John Donne” handout
tone handout
Ben Jonson in-class essay
textbook (including biographies of authors)
Be Sure to Know:
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significance of the year 1625
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authors/main ideas/themes of all the works
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imagery in poems- know the poem each image is from (rosebuds, worms, morning dew, deserts of vast eternity,
Time’s wingèd chariot, glorious lamp of heaven)
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significance of the publication of Ben Jonson’s Works
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know which poem these quotations come from:
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
“Seven years, thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, / Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.”
“All which I meant to praise, and yet I would, / But leave, because I cannot as I should.”
“Though art’s hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound.”
“Since when it grows and smells, I swear, / Not of itself, but thee.”
“Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due, / It makes the father less to rue.”
“Rest in soft peace, and asked, say here doth lie / Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.”
“To it thy language, letters, arts, best life, / Which might with half mankind maintain a strife.”
“The thirst that from the soul doth rise, / Doth ask a drink divine:”
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epigram
parallel structure
anaphora
carpe diem
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dates of Renaissance Part II
The English Renaissance Part II: 14 Questions
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significances of the years 1625,
1642, 1649, and 1660
The Works:
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double standard at the end of
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“To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars”
“Eve’s Apology”
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“When I consider how my light is spent”
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rhyme scheme of “When I
Consider”
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from “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
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from Paradise Lost
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octave/sestet of “When I Consider”
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plots/main ideas/themes of all
Study:
works
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your notes and annotations
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts,
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The English Renaissance Part II background handout
people – this is ONLY an overview!
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“When I consider how my light is spent” class discussion handout
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Charles I
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Paradise Lost packet (opinion survey, John Milton bio, heaven/chaos/
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Oliver Cromwell
hell diagram, cast of characters, study guide questions, Book IX excerpts
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English Interregnum
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textbook (including biographies of Lovelace and Lanier)
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Cavalier
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Roundhead
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Royalist
5
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The Restoration
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apostate
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The Restoration and Eighteenth Century: 11 Questions
The Works:
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from “An Essay on Man”
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“A Modest Proposal”
Study
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your notes and annotations
The Restoration and Eighteenth Century background packet (green)
satire notes
“A Modest Proposal” satirical devices handout
“A Modest Proposal” study guide handout
textbook (including biographies of authors)
Be sure to know:
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dates of the period
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dates of Act of Union and Glorious
Revolution
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authors’ view of humans
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why the period ended (in terms of ideas)
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characteristics of neoclassicism
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plots/main ideas/themes of all works
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important authors of the period
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At what age should children be eaten?
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be sure to study all materials!
Test Act
Popish Plot
Tory
Whig
Glorious Revolution
James II
William III and Mary II
constitutional monarchy
Act of Union
agricultural revolution
The Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
neoclassical
satire
The Age of Prose
the beginnings of the novel
understatement
hyperbole
sarcasm
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The Romantic Period: 37 Questions
The Works:
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“We Are Seven”
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“The world is too much with us”
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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“She Walks in Beauty”
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from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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“Ozymandias”
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“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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Persuasion Chapter 1
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Persuasion film
Study (historical background, Wordsworth, Coleridge)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
your notes and annotations
Be sure to know:
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The Romantic Period background handout (yellow)
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dates of the Romantic Period
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William Wordsworth packet (biography and poems)
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characteristics of Romantic literature
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Wordsworth/Coleridge exam questions
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major authors
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textbook (including biographies of authors)
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ideas that influenced Romantic writers
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plots/main ideas/themes of all works
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Where are the “We Are Seven” girl’s siblings?
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be sure to study all materials!
French Revolution
6
Lyrical Ballads
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your notes and annotations
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Jane Austen packet (biography, free indirect discourse, 1995 film background,
questions to consider, family trees, male primogeniture succession, Persuasion characters)
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Persuasion Chapter 1 (packet)
Be sure to know:
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Persuasion exam questions
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plot of Chapter 1 and
film
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characters
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be
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novels by Jane Austen
sure to study all materials!
retrench
free indirect discourse
Study (Byron, Shelley, and Keats)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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your notes
Byron biography quiz
textbook (including biographies of authors)
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be
sure to study all materials!
apostrophe
personification
raven tress
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Be sure to know:
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main ideas of poems
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biographical information
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paradoxes in
“Apostrophe to the
Ocean” from Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage
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What type of sonnet is
“When I have fears”?
The Victorian Period: 13 Questions
The Works:
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A&E Biography of King Arthur
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur
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“Ulysses”
Study:
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your notes and annotations
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The Victorian Period background packet (lavender)
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King Arthur packet (A&E viewing guide, 7 events,
Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur study guide questions)
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Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur (handout)
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Victorian Period quiz
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textbook (including Tennyson biography)
Be sure to know:
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dates of the period
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dates of Queen Victoria’s rule
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1832, 1867
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“white man’s burden”
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year first English women gained the vote
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early, mid, late Victorian Period
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plot/themes of Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur
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63 years
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be sure to study all materials!
First Reform Bill
Utilitarianism
Karl Marx
Second Reform Bill
Charles Darwin
The Communist Manifesto
Corn Laws
John Stuart Mill
Married Women’s Property Acts
“victorian”
“Irish Question”
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
7
“The Woman Question”
governess novel
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The Modern Period: 8 Questions
The Works:
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from The Old Wives’ Tale (psychological realism handout)
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from Mrs. Dalloway (psychological realism handout)
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Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (handout)
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from The Sound and the Fury (handout)
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The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (documentary)
Be sure to know:
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dates of the period
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characteristics of Modernism
Study:
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your notes and annotations
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Modernism background packet (background, types of discourse, Uncle Charles Principle, stream of consciousness)
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psychological realism handout
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people – this is ONLY an overview. Be sure to study all materials!
psychological realism
stream of consciousness
The Voyage Out
free indirect discourse
World War I
Mrs. Dalloway
direct discourse
World War II
indirect discourse
James Joyce
Uncle Charles Principle
Virginia Woolf
Modernism
realism
interior characterization
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Dates/Numbers for Review
In the box below each, provide the significance.
9
1616
1688-1689
1818
29
3
1837
1915
1625
late 1700s
25
1649
1798-1832
early 1800s
1660
1707
1658
1918
1867
1660-1798
1832-1901
36
1832
1914-1945
1925