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Two emblematic Modernist authors that put into practice in their
literature the new theories of the instability of space and the
subjective perception of time through the techniques known as
“Moment of Being” and “Epiphany.”
A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that
influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde
belonged.
A linguistic formula that takes the shape of a short sentence that
mocks our own preconceived ideas about life, society or beliefs,
used recurrently to create satire and parody in The Importance of
Being Earnest.
The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically
refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and
government.
Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in
Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway.
The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that
symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the
knowledge of India
A war poet that became the icon of the country’s enthusiastic
confidence in the triumph of First World War due to the
publication of his sonnet sequence “191 4”
The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and
physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers.
ESSAY: In ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ Wilfred Owen plainly addresses the idea
of patriotism. Write an essay considering the idea of patriotism in
Owen’s poem in the context of the poetry written in the First
World War
A memorable female character in Oscar Wilde’s play The
Importance of Being Earnest; she is the type of an aristocratic
English lady
The title of an immensely popular poem—by a famous AngloIndian author—which justified imperialism as a messianic cause;
after its publication, the poem has been the object of controversy
and parody.
The title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War
I, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of
the members of a “lost generation” whose lives were truncated or
determined by the conflict.
A “novel of formation”, i.e. one that traces the development and
growth of the main character, often from childhood/adolescence
to maturity; D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is an example of
this narrative genre.
According to Virginia Woolf, the ideal state of mind in which to
produce art: the perfect balance or combination of the masculine
and the feminine.
In David Lodge’s words, a type of thought and speech
presentation “in which the grammatical subject is an T, and we
[the readers], as it were, overhear the character verbalising his or
her thoughts as they occur”
A phrase used to refer both to Britain during World War I, and to
the support movement to the cause and the troops, both moral
and logistic, from the people who did not fight the war
In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the name used to refer to
the Congo headquarters of the trading company that employs
Marlow and had previously employed Kurtz.
ESSAY: Read the final lines of Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum
Est’ and write an essay discussing Owen’s accusatory
implications in relation to the theme of women, war, and literature
in the First World War
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
A main opposite the metaphor of “darkness” and “light” symbolize
in Heart of Darkness.
A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa
by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade
after 1880.
Two great thinkers, one scientist and one philosopher, from the
nineteenth century whose work influenced enormously the new
interpretations of the ever-changing world at the beginning of the
twentieth-century.
The place where the main event of misunderstanding and
mysticism takes place in Passage to India and from which the rest
of the novel will evolve.
Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that
originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day.
The literary genre in which Son and Lovers could be classified.
The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and
served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by
Modernist authors.
When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place?
ESSAY: Towards the end of A Room Of One’s Own Virginia Woolf talks
about androgyny in relation to women and literature. Write an
essay discussing Woolf's androgynous ideal concluding by briefly
arguing whether you think Mrs.Dalloway is an androgynous text.
A sentence containing a wise or witty comment; Oscar Wilde’s
style is identified with this type of sentences. For example: “In
married life three is company and two none” (The Importance of
Being Earnest).
The city where the trading company that employs Marlow—and
had previously employed Kurtz—is based; it is vividly described
by the main narrator, who defines it as “a whited sepulchre”.
An imaginary setting established by E. M. Forster as a
prototypical Indian town in A Passage to India; the first chapter of
the novel is a rich description of its historical past and social
atmosphere.
The title of any of the sonnets by Rupert Brooke that make up the
sequence “1914”, and which convey the poet’s experience of and
reflections on World War I.
Either of the two theoretical concepts championed by T. S. Eliot
in his early work as a critic; his ideal was for artists to avoid
directly expressing individual feelings, emotions and experiences
The title that Virginia Woolf had initially thought of for the novel
that was eventually called Mrs Dalloway
The setting of the crucial final scene/episode in Virginia Woolfs
novel Mrs Dalloway (be as specific as possible).
An illness that affected many World War I veterans, producing in
them insistent, almost real-life memories of the war. In Virginia
Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, the character of Septimus Warren Smith is
affected by this psychological condition.
ESSAY: Write an essay (200-250 words) discussing Mrs. and Mr. Morel's
relationship contextualized in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
as a whole.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the name of Algernon’s
imaginary friend used as an excuse by this young gentleman to
occasionally escape from London and its strict codes of
behaviour.
Kurtz’s famous last words heard and recalled by Marlow in
Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart ofDarkness.
Name at least one of the conventions of 19th century fiction that
D. H. Lawrence challenged in his innovative work.
An illness that affected many World War I veterans, producing in
them insistent, almost real-life memories of the war. In Virginia
Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, the character of Septimus Warren Smith is
affected by this psychological condition.
A cultural period and its values, which Oscar Wilde criticizes with
great wit and irony in The Importance ofBeing Earnest.
The Berlin Conference, held in 1885, set up rules to control
colonization in Africa, allowing free access to navigate two main
rivers. One of them will be the main geographical context for
Heart ofDarkness. Name these two rivers.
The complete name of the author of Heart of Darkness.
The followers of a movement with a particular vision of art and
way of life based on aestheticism and art for art’s sake
contextualized at the end of the nineteenth century, to which
Oscar Wilde belonged
ESSAY: “Until now we have heard only of the duty which society imposes
in order to exist, which means that to be truthful is to use the
customary, hence edifyingly expressed metaphors; we have heard
only of the duty to lie in accordance with firm conventions, to lie
herd-like in a style binding for all”. (Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On
Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense’.) Write an essayexploring the sense of alienation and isolation in Joseph
Conrad’s The Heart ofDarkness.
A writer of South-African origin, associated with socialist, feminist
and anti-colonialist movements in Britain, in the second half of
the twentieth century. The heroines in her novels and short
stories can be identified with the type of the “New Woman”.
Term used in Heart of Darkness, with reference to the city of
Brussels, and by extension to civilised and developed cities, which
Marlow perceives as dead places dominated by hypocrisy and
materialism.
A kind of poetry studied in the course which developed from
1914. It provided original writing techniques in form and themes
trying to transform atrocity into art
The title of an immensely popular poem—by a famous AngloIndian author—which justified imperialism as a messianic cause;
after its publication, the poem has been the object of controversy
and parody.
Title of Virginia Woolfs groundbreaking essay where she explores
her opinion that the ideal state of mind in which to produce art is
an androgynous one.
The year of publication of two major and groundbreaking works of
British Modernism: T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land and James
Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, two linked characters
that can be considered to embody a series of oppositions: middle
class versus working class, intellect versus force, reflection versus
instinct.
The American poet from whose work E. M. Forster took the title of
his last novel.
ESSAY: Read the quote below and write an essay (200-250 words)
analysing the use of parody and satire in relation to marriage in
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance ofBeing Earnest:
CECILY: You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had
always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone whose
name was Ernest.
The author and main British writer of colonial times that wrote
the poem “The White Man’s Burden”
What is the original title Woolf was going to give to the novel and
later changed to Mrs. Dalloway
Who does Paul meet that introduces him to the family members
and the life in the Leivers’ farm?
What is the communal profession the main character in Sons and
Lovers is surrounded by during his childhood?
A cultural period and its values, which Oscar Wilde criticizes with
great wit and irony in The Importance ofBeing Earnest.
Spatial opposites, places leading to different kinds of life and
cultural attitudes, represented through the real and imaginary
characters in The Importance ofBeing Earnest.
The complete name of the author of A Passage to India.
Name two War poets who were critical to WWI nationalist
enthusiasm and social support for soldiers.
ESSAY: What was “new” about the “New Woman”? Please write an essay
analyzing this figure and the literature written by women studied
in this course. Refer your answer to some literary examples of the
period.
A writer of South-African origin, associated with socialist, feminist
and anti-colonialist movements in Britain, in the second half of
the twentieth century. The heroines in her novels and short
stories can be identified with the type of the “New Woman”.
A concept coined by Friedrich Nietzsche which presents
experience as cyclical and endlessly repeated. It had a great
influence on Modernist literature, as we can see in Virginia
Woolfs Mrs Dalloway or James Joyce’s Ulysses.
A kind of poetry studied in the course which developed from
1914. It provided original writing techniques in form and themes
trying to transform atrocity into art.
A character in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India who comes to
India to marry Mrs Moore’s son.
Title of Virginia Woolfs groundbreaking essay where she explores
her opinion that the ideal state of mind in which to produce art is
an androgynous one.
The title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War
I, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of
the members of a “lost generation” whose lives were truncated or
determined by the conflict.
In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, two linked characters
that can be considered to embody a series of oppositions: middle
class versus working class, intellect versus force, reflection versus
instinct.
In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, a character about
whom the narrator (through Paul’s perspective) says: “She had
borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him [Paul] and not being
claimed by him.”
ESSAY: Write an essay (200-250 words) discussing the topic “women
writing the war” in relation to the literary production of the First
World War.
British woman Classicist and social anthropologist who
contributed to the matriarchal discourse initiated by Johann
Bachofen in the 1860s.
Aesthetic dictum which Oscar Wilde and some other British
artists followed. It consisted of pursuing beauty and pleasure as
an end in itself, subverting Victorian pragmatism.
Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild
—
Name of the war poet who was never included in any of Marsh’s
anthologies but he felt very closely related to the movement, he
wrote the first stanza of unpublished The Ballad of Peace and
War’
According to Virginia Woolf, the ideal state of mind in which to
produce art: the perfect balance or combination of the masculine
and the feminine.
Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her,
when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear
now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at
Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this
of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave;
the kiss of a wave;
Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co.
built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of
Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row,
they erected the Bottoms.
Author of Testament of Youth, one of the most famous
autobiographies of the First World War
ESSAY: “Heart of Darkness seems to blur the line between the so-called
“advanced” society of Europe and the “primitive” society of Africa.”
Write an essay discussing this statement in relation to the theme
of empire in Conrad’s text. Please use some quotes from the
literary text to support your argument.
Philosopher who proclaimed that 'God is dead' and was the first
to consider human responsibility in a universe without God
author of Thus Spoke Zarathusta: A Book fo Everyone and No
One.
Psychologist who proposes the “death drive”, the theoretical view
that advocates for an instinctual want felt by organic organisms
towards death, self-destruction and return to inorganic
chemistry
Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Name of the Woolfs female heroine who kills herself trapped by
the confines of the expectations of women and unable to carry out
her artistic genius.
Name of Paul’s parents in D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter
of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was
nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it
was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to:
That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not
lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realise,
dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts
himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more
careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray.
Author of ‘They’ a poem that transforms horror into satirical
laughter through a masterful use of direct speech technique.
A theme that runs through The Importance of being Earnest is
"dishonesty" on several levels: society ("masks") individual
(Algernon, Jack). Write an essay analyzing how dishonesty works
in the play as a whole. Please provide some quotations to
exemplify your argument.
Two emblematic Modernist authors that put into practice in their
literature the new theories of the instability of space and the
subjective perception of time through the techniques known as
“Moment of Being” and “Epiphany.”
A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that
influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde
belonged
A linguistic formula that takes the shape of a short sentence that
mocks our own preconceived ideas about life, society or beliefs,
used recurrently to create satire and parody in The Importance of
Being Earnest.
The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically
refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and
g
Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in
Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway.
The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that
symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the
knowledge of India
A war poet that became the icon of the country’s enthusiastic
confidence in the triumph of First World War due to the
publication of his sonnet sequence “1914”
The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and
physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers.
ESSAY: “A Passage to India is a literary point of view on the British
Empire.” Write an essay analysing the literary text in relation to
this statement. Make sure you do use at least one quote and
examples from the literary text to support your argument.
An intellectual and artistic group E. M. Forster belonged to.
A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa
by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade
after 1880.
Two great thinkers, one scientist and one philosopher, from the
nineteenth century whose work influenced enormously the new
interpretations of the ever-changing world at the beginning of the
twentieth-century
The place where the main event of misunderstanding and
mysticism takes place in Passage to India and from which the rest
of the novel will evolve.
Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that
originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day.
The literary genre in which Son and Lovers could be classified.
The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and
served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by
Modernist authors.
When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place?
Examen 2015 week1- pregunta 8.- in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the name used to refer to the Congo headquarters of the trading company that employs Marlow and had previously employed Kurtz
