Abeka English Literature Unit 7– Part 1 – Flashcards

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England's longest-reigning monarch
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Queen Victoria
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The object of of Victorian literature was ______ in reflecting the practical ______ and issues of daily life.
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truthfulness, problems
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The Victorian era was an age of ___.
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prose
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the five great nonfiction prose writers of the Victorian era (last names only)
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Macaulay, Carlyle, Arnold, Newman, and Ruskin
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four writers who wrote some of the greatest English novels (last names only)
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Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Hardy
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For the most part Victorian poetry had a ____ as well as a ___.
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message, song
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the three great poets of the Victorian age (last names only)
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Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold
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painter of *Lady of Shalott*
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John William Waterhouse
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the "Voice of Victorian England," one of the greatest craftsmen of the English language, and the most popular poet of the Victorian Era; wrote "Ulysses," *Idylls of the King*, and *In Memoriam*
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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the first published elegy for Tennyson's friend, Arthur Hallam
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"Break, Break, Break"
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term for a short work describing a pleasant scene of country or domestic life; a brief picture, sketch, or scene
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idyll
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term for a lyric poem which reveals "a soul in action" through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation
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dramatic monologue
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dramatic monologue that is considered to be Tennyson's greatest poem because it encourages people "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
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"Ulysses"
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Tennyson's monologue by a young man who has been rejected by his lover; poem in which Tennyson expresses great optimism concerning man's supposed evolution
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"Locksley Hall"
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poem in which Alfred, Lord Tennyson explains why he is not eager for democracy to come to England
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"You Ask Me Why"
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Tennyson's greatest poem, which contains the lines "'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
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"In Memoriam A. H. H."
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painter of *Our English Coasts* who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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William Holman Hunt
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Tennyson's domestic idyll that has been called one of the noblest stories of self-sacrifice in all literature; the most popular of Tennyson's poems
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*Enoch Arden*
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Tennyson's characters and stories differ from Sir Thomas Malory's in their ___ ___.
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moral tone
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson may have had ___ ___ in mind in the character of Arthur.
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Prince Albert
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the theme of *Idylls of the King*
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the war of sense with the soul (or flesh with the spirit)
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the ideal king in *Idylls of the King* who represents the spiritual power which can subdue the lower nature of man; symbolic of Christ and the soul
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King Arthur
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the queen in *Idylls of the King* who is symbolic of the flesh, the visible, and material or real
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Guinivere
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the symbol of divine perfection and unity in *Idylls of the King*
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Round Table
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the knight of knights unequaled in deeds and prowess, except by the king, in Tennyson's *Idylls of the King*
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Lancelot
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name of the realm in Tennyson's *Idylls of the King*
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Camelot
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When sin creeps into Camelot, the ___ is corrupted, and ___ and hope are eventually overcome. (*Idylls of the King*)
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order, virtue
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the lovers in *Guinivere*, from *Idylls of the King*
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Lancelot and Guinivere
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painter of *Queen Guinevere*
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William Morris
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evil knight who deals King Arthur a mortal blow in *The Passing of Arthur*
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Sir Mordred
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name of King Arthur's sword (from *The Passing of Arthur*)
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Excalibur
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One of the burning issues of Victorian England was the place ____ should play in society.
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women
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work in which Alfred, Lord Tennyson sympathized with women who wanted an education, but pointed out that the need for maintaining stable homes is more important than schemes to make all things equal
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*The Princess*
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England's first poet laureate in the modern sense
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Ben Johnson
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England's first *official* poet laureate
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John Dryden
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two of the best-known laureate poems (both written by Tennyson)
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"Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" and "Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Tennyson's ballad that describes how Sir Richard Grenville stood against a Spanish fleet of fifty-three vessels and fifteen thousand men in 1591
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"The Revenge"
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poem in which Tennyson looks back in disillusionment at his youthful faith in human evolution
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"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"
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Allfred, Lord Tennyson's poem about passing from life to death, which always appears at the end of collections of Tennyson's works
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"Crossing the Bar"
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poem that contains the lines "But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!"
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"Break, Break, Break" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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poem that contains the line, "I am a part of all that I have met."
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"Ulysses" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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poem that contain the line, "In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
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"Locksley Hall" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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poem that contains the line, "Ring out the old, ring in the new."
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*In Memoriam*
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poem that contains the lines, "The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of."
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"The Passing of Arthur" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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poem that contains the lines, "Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea."
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"Crossing the Bar" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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