1. Please turn in your
group’s ‘Is it Romantic?’
worksheet
Plan for today:
1. Quiz #3
2. Groups 7 & 8
3. notes
4. Literary devices
5. review for midterm

2. The Victorian Age &
Critical realism
p.106

3. Content
being critical of the real world
Years: 1832-1900
conflict between those in power and
the common masses of laborers and
the poor
shocking life of sweatshops and
urban poor is highlighted in literature
to insist on reform
country versus city life

5. Genre/styles
novelbecomes popular for first time;
mass produced for the first time
◦ political novels
◦ detective novels (Sherlock Holmes)
◦ serialized novels (Charles Dickens)-
published in sections in papers, magazines
poetry: easier to understand
◦ dramatic monologues
drama:comedies of manners
magazines offer stories to the masses
Effects
literature begins to reach the masses

6. Historical Context
paper becomes cheap; magazines and
novels cheap to mass produce
unprecedented growth of industry
and business in Britain
unparalleleddominance of nations,
economies and trade abroad
The Reign of Queen Victoria
Chartism-The Working Class want a
say!

7. Key literature and authors
Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist”,
“Great Expectations”
Thomas Hardy
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
Oscar Wilde
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Charles Darwin
Charlotte Bronte
Robert Browning
William Makepeace Thackeray “Vanity
Fair”

8. Pg.87-
88 Literary/sound devices
right-hive
Margaret got a
Symbol velvet hat
Imagery The poem made me
feel confident and
Mood brave
Assonance The wood crackled
and popped with the
Consonance
heat of the fire
Dove=peace

9. Irony
Opposite of what is meant; a general term
for the contrast between appearance and
reality; a contrast between what appears
to be true and what is true.
-Verbal irony (p. 68)-e.g. someone
says ‘nice day, isn’t it?’ during a rainstorm
-Situational irony (p. 113)-e.g. a king
is sad after killing his enemy

10. Example of Irony

11. Pun
A figure of speech/joke involving a
‘play on’ words (express two meanings
at the same time)
◦ The gorilla went ape when he saw the
bananas.
◦ On the side of the diaper delivery truck
was written "Rock a Dry Baby."

12. Oxymoron
Self-contradictory terms used together
Examples:
◦ plastic glasses
◦ honest lawyer
◦ jumbo shrimp
◦ soft rock
◦ clearly misunderstood
◦ pretty ugly
◦ Small crowd

13. Onomatopoeia
The use of a word that suggests the sound it makes;
creates clear sound images and helps a writer
draw attention to certain words; examples include
buzz, pop, hiss, moo, hum, murmur, crackle, crunch,
and gurgle

14. Litotes
Figure of speech that uses understatement for
effect, often by using double negatives
“Not unattractive”
(as a means of “attractive”
saying)
"He "He was well
was not
unfamiliar with the acquainted with the
works of Dickens.“ works of Dickens.“
"She is not so "She is kind.”
unkind.“
"You are not wrong." "You are correct."

15. Euphemism
 an expression or "phrase" used in place of
words considered unpleasant, painful, or
offensive; when courtesy and tact are
required
Unpleasant term Euphemism
to die to pass away

16. Literary & sound devices:
we’ve learned a lot!

17. Review!
Team timeline
Literary devices jeopardy
Author & works jeopardy

18. Which author…
spent time fighting in revolutions in Italy
and Greece?
◦ Lord Byron
struggled with unemployment and
hypochondria?
◦ Charlotte Bronte
came from a poor family that struggled
with debt?
◦ Charles Dickens
• started out as a merchant?
• Daniel Defoe

19. Which author…
• was a Puritan?
• John Bunyan
• was an actor as well as a writer and poet?
• William Shakespeare
• wrote under a pen-name?
• Charlotte Bronte
was known to have a scandalous private
life?
◦ Lord Byron

20. Name the character who said…
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
◦ Hamlet
“He kissed the ground by my feet, and
then picked up my foot and put it on his
head. He was trying to show me that I
was his master and he was my slave.”
◦ Robinson Crusoe

21. Identify the novel, play or
poem these lines are from:
“Then people long to go on pilgrimages
And palmers long to seek the stranger
strands
Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands,
And specially, from every shire’s end
In England, down to Canterbury they wend
To seek the holy blissful martyr, quick…”
Canterbury Tales

22. Identify the novel, play or poem
these lines are from:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
untrimm’d;
Shakespeare’s sonnet 18

23. This author commonly wrote
about which issues or themes:
Daniel Defoe
a. Rights of women
b. Colonialism and capitalism
c. Nature
 Charlotte Bronte
a. Individualism
b. Industrialism
c. Importance of education

24. Let’s do some more review!
For each hint, write down:
1) the author
2) period they wrote in
3)their major work(s)
4) general form of writing

25.  Period: Pre-Renaissance(Middle
Ages)
 Major Works: The Canterbury
Tales
 General Form of Writing: Poetry
Hint for Author 1

26.  Period: The Renaissance
 Major Works: Hamlet, Romeo and
Juliet
 GeneralForm of Writing: Sonnets
and Plays
Hint for Author 2

27.  Period: The Classical Period
 Major Works: Pilgrim’s Progress
 General Form of Writing: allegorical
prose
Hint for author 3

28.  Period: The Age of Enlightenment
 Major Works: Robinson Crusoe
 General Form of Writing: Novel
Hint for author 4

29.  Period: The Romantic Period
 MajorWorks: “I Wandered Lonely
As a Cloud”
 General Form of Writing: Poetry
Hint for author 5

30.  Period: The Romantic Period
 Major
Works: “She Walks in
Beauty”
 General Form of Writing: Poetry
Hint for author 6

31.  Period:The Victorian
Period/English Critical Realism
 MajorWorks: Oliver Twist, Great
Expectations
 General Form of Writing: Novel
Hint for author 7

32. Homework: review for your midterm
Be familiar with Middle Ages-19th century
◦ Well-known writers of each era
 -their lives(briefly), works, themes/style in writing
• historical contexts that effect writers
• literary devices
• how to analyze a poem for form, meter,
rhyme
• Vocabulary covered in class
*To prepare review your notes, homework
and classmate’s handouts