Victorian Literature Review

Which of the following is NOT true of the Victorian era?

• The gulf between the rich and the poor widened.

• The industrial revolution modernized life.

• Religious doubts were on the rise.

• The novel nearly disappeared as people turned toward poetry.

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Novels in the Victorian era often appeared as serialized tales in magazines before being published as books.

• true

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Which of the following is NOT true of the Victorian novel?

• They often tackled social problems of the day head-on.

• They tended toward realism.

• They often exhibited new narrative techniques like multi-plotted stories.

• The were usually short.

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The most famous English novelist of the Victorian Era is...

• Charles Dickens

• Emily Bronte

• Lord Tennyson

• Robert Browning

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"Ulysses" by Lord Tennyson is about...

• the Trojan War and its after effects.

• making life count all the way until the very end.

• the American Civil War hero.

• old people being better than young people.

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An allegory is...

• a story in which characters and places stand for other things.

• a poem in which a single speaker speaks inside a completely imagined dramatic moment.

• a poem of 14 lines that divides into an octave and sestet.

• a favorite device of Charles Dickens.

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Which poem is an allegory?

• "Porphyria's Lover"

• "The Windhover"

• "The Lady of Shalott"

• "To An Athlete Dying Young"

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This poet uses the receding tide as a symbol of society's loss of faith.

• A.E. Housman in "When I was One-and-Twenty"

• Matthew Arnold in "Dover Beach"

• Tennyson in "Ulysses"

• Gerard Manley Hopkins in "Spring and Fall"

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Which poem is the most like "Is My Team Plowing"?

• "God's Grandeur"

• "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"

• "The Lady of Shalott"

• "Thou Art, Indeed, Just Lord"

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Explain how those two poems are similar.

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