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ELIT46C - IDs from Midterm Review

Select EIGHT of the following I.D.s and in 3-4 sentences each discuss their significance. (10 points for each I.D. - 80 points total)

* For literary or theoretical terms: define the term and provide an example that illustrates the significance of the term.

* For characters, places, etc.: identify the novel/story in which it appears and explain its significance within that novel/story.


Bentley Drummle
Biddy
birth of consciousness
the black press
blue-bleak embers
bonnet
buckle
Camelot
Cathy’s whip
Come buy, come buy conceptual rhyme
consonance
conversation poem
Cosimo of the Medici
the Count’s envoy
Cousin’s cousin
crown of ivy
Crystal Palace Great Exhibition
devil Daddy
Doppelganger
double bildungsroman
dramatic monologue
Edgar Linton
ekphrasis
embroidery/needlework
Estella
Eucharist
the faultless painter
four great walls in the New Jerusalem
Frà Pandolf
frame narrative
Frances
George Barnwell
golden lock
a gridiron is a gridiron
gypsy
Hareton
Herbert Pocket
Hindley
I am become a name
iambic pentameter
idle king
ignorant armies clash by night
inscape
instres
interlocuter
is even love too weak / To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Isabella
Jaggers
Jeannie
Lancelot
large-brained woman and large-hearted man
Laura
Linton Heathcliff
the little gray church on the windy hill
Lizzie
Lockwood
Lucrezia
Magwitch
Married Women’s Property Acts
mise en abyme
Miss Havisham
moment of utterance
my face, my moon, my everybody's moon
Nelly
neologism
Newgate
objective correlative
Orlick
the pale young gentleman
Phillip Pirrip
portable property
the Prior’s niece
Prosper
Pumblechook
the Quiet
Rev. Jabes Branderham
Rodin's Thinker
Romney
rope around the monk’s gown
sake
Satis House
The sea is calm tonight the Sea of Faith
self-reflexive
shrunk iciliy into myself, like a snail
silver penny
So He
solipsism
stasis
synecdoche
Telemachus
Thrushcross Grange
tirra lirra
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Trabb’s boy
unreliability of the narrator
washing of hands
weaving loom
Wemmick
Wopsle

PART II – ESSAY (30 pts. for each text - 120 pts. total)

Answer ONE of the following questions and utilize a minimum of FOUR texts in your answer. You will have a choice of some texts while others will be required.

Possible topics:

Endings of texts
Form of the text (how the form conveys the content)
Identity
Gender roles
Language and representation (role of reading/writing/poet/artist)
Middle class ideology (particularly capitalism)
Nature
Religion

 Updated Monday, May 10, 2004 at 3:24:51 PM by Lydia Hearn - hearnlydia@fhda.edu
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