Quarter 3, Quiz #2

Victorians & Modernism (Honors)

Terms for Identification (7 @ 2 pts each):
• Narrative of progress
• Social problem novel
• Gothic fiction (know at least 3 characteristics of the gothic)
• “The Angel in the House”
• Doctrine of separate spheres
• Persona poem
• Poet laureate
• Imagist movement
• Imagery
• Symbol/symbolism
• Allusion

Passage Identification (4 @ 3 pts each): Recognize excerpts from the following works and
discuss the significance of the excerpt to themes discussed in the time period (Victorian literature
or Modernism).

Victorian Literature
• Sydney Smith, “Progress in Personal Comfort”
• Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
• A. E. Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young”
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade

Modern Literature
• Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
• Siegfried Sassoon, “Wirers”
• Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
• William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
• T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
 Quarter 3, Quiz #2
Victorians & Modernism (Regular)
Terms for Identification (5 @ 2 pts each):
• Narrative of progress
• Social problem novel
• Gothic fiction (know at least 3 characteristics of the gothic)
• “The Angel in the House”
• Doctrine of separate spheres
• Persona poem
• Poet laureate
• Allusion

Passage Identification (3 @ 3 pts each): Recognize excerpts from the following works and
discuss the significance of the excerpt to themes discussed in the time period (Victorian literature
or Modernism).

Victorian Literature
• Sydney Smith, “Progress in Personal Comfort”
• Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
• A. E. Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young”
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade

Modern Literature
• Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
• Siegfried Sassoon, “Wirers”
• Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
• William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
• T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”