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Victorian Era
Hon Brit Lit
22
Literature
12th Grade
03/12/2018

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Term
Churls
Definition
farm laborers, peasants.
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Waning
Definition
gradually becoming dimmer or weaker.
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Furrows
Definition
narrow grooves, such as though made by a plow.
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Speaker
Definition
the person who "says" its words-not necessarily the poet
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Judge the Poet's Message
Definition
to decide how true and useful that message is
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Parallel Structure
Definition
simular grammatical forms or ideas
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Countenance
Definition
face
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Officious
Definition
meddlesome
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Munificence
Definition
lavish generosity
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Dowry
Definition
property brought by a woman's family to her husband upon marriage.
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Eludes
Definition
avoids or escaping
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Dramatic Monologue
Definition
single character delivers speech to listener.
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Run-On Lines
Definition
lines ending where flow of words force you to read without pause.
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End-Stopped lines
Definition
lines end where speaker would pause.
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Inferences
Definition
educated guesses
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like/as
Definition
like: preposition
as: subordinating conjunction
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The Lady of Shallot
Definition
-anguished women
-curse (can't look out window, has to look through mirror)
-weaves what she sees
-turns to see Sir Lancelot
-feels curse
-gets in boat, carves name, sings to death
-boat floats across river
-"what a lovely face"-Lancelot
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Ulysses
Definition
-Odysseus
-wants sailors/friends to adventure with him
-live life to the fullest
-sail to death
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Idylls of the King
Definition
-King Arthur
-Guinevere
-she cheats with Sir Lancelot
-Arthur forgives her for her wrongdoing
-truly loves her(forgiving)
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My Last Duchess
Definition
-duke(speaker)(dramatic monologue)
-painting of his last duchess
-had wife killed(too nice to others)
-unbothered and onto the next
-trying to arrange the next marriage
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Porphyria's Lover
Definition
-peasant man
-loves porphyria (wealthy woman)
-will never marry him
-but he realizes he loves her
-wraps hair around neck and kills her
-to keep the moment
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Sonnet 43
Definition
-loves him through all things (everything)
-Elizabeth Browning talking bout husband- Robert Browning
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