VICTORIAN PERIOD TEST
REVIEW
Test is this Friday
Yes! I will post this on english12classroom.pbworks.com
What is on this test?
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Some notes about the Victorian period.
Lit Terms…YOU HAVE TO KNOW THEM!!!!
Understanding the poem and if you TPCASTT the
poems this will help you study
Essay about the poem “Ulysses”
The question “bank” is every page of questions
following each poem in the text. That is where all
questions will come from for this test.
I have no clue how to study for this…
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Start with the TP CASTT for each poem
Look at the terms and understand what they mean.
Find examples in the poems they are matched with
the poem to study.
We will go over the questions today. So keep
CALM!!!!! Breathe AP kids…BREATHE!!!!
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What is the time frame of the Victorian period?
Who is the queen and how large was her reign?
What were some of the terrible conditions that
happened during Victoria’s reign?
What was the hope of the new emerging middle
class?
What did the Victorians value according to there
beliefs regarding government, family, women, and
art?
“Lady of Shalott” by Lord Alfred
Tennyson
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Word music
Meter
Rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
Plot
Climax
“Lady of Shalott” continued
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Images
Contrasting images
Foreshadowing
Metrical form
“Ulysses”
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Theme
Difference between theme and subject
Personification
Characterize
“Pied Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins
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Assonance
Alliteration
Antithesis
Inverted word order
Unusual compound
Invented word
Praise poem
“ My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
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Dramatic monologue
Inferences
Tone
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning
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Petrarchan sonnet
Turn
Rhythm
“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E.
Housman
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Couplet
Exact rhyme
Half rhyme
Alliteration
“ Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
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Mood
Atmosphere
Image
Figure of speech
TPCASTT…What?
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T
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T
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title
paraphrase
connotation/and any other lit terms you see
attitude
shifts
title
theme
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T title of the work and what it might tell you
P the literal meaning of the poem…what happened
in your own words
C associations we have to words or images and any
lit devices you see
A speaker’s attitude to the subject or the poet’s
attiutde to the subject. Think tone
S shifts in focus or changes within the poem
T after all of this…does the title mean something
more to you the reader
T what is the poem saying about the human
experience? What did you learn?
TPCASTT “Lady of Shalott”
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“Lady of Shalot”
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By Lord Alfred Tennyson or if you don’t like his royal
title, Alfred Tennyson.
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
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Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning
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“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E.
Housman
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“Pied of Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins
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“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
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TPCASTT “Ulysses”
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“Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson
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Personification
characterize
“Ulysses” the writing prompt
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In an essay analyze the theme of this poem. Use
passages from the poem to support your statement
of theme and provide any literary devices that you
find in the poem.
BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS
QUESTION IS ASKING BEFORE YOU TRY TO WRITE
THE ESSAY.
“Ulysses”
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Essay plan….MAKE ONE!!!!
You need a thesis topic and you must support the
poem with the text AND your own analysis.
Ulysses Essay: Writing plan template
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Thesis statement:
1# analysis of support PLUS text support
2# analysis of support PLUS text support
3# analysis of support PLUS text support
4# analysis of support PLUS text support
Conclusion
YOUR TURN TO WRITE A PLAN. May
bring plan BUT not whole essay to the
test.
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Thesis
1#
2#
3#
4# ( if you have it)
Conclusion