Victorian Period Study Guide
Historical background
 Industrial revolution
 Idea of progress
 Reforms
 Behavior
 Uncertainty
 Purpose of Victorian writing
 Colonialism – James Berry
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
“The Eagle: A Fragment”
 tercet
 alliteration
 personification
 metaphor
 simile
 symbolism
“Flower in a Crannied Wall”
 symbolism
 man’s relationship with God
“Lady of Shallot”
 symbol
 imagery
 irony
Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess”
 dramatic monologue
 characterization
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Sonnet 43”
 Petrarchan sonnet
 simile
Christina Rossetti
“A Birthday”
 simile
 imagery
 two interpretations
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
 mood
 theme
 metaphors
Thomas Hardy
“Convergence of the Twain”
 conceit
 imagery
 irony
A.E. Houseman
“When I was One and Twenty”
 tone
 conclusions drawn
 theme
“On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank”
 setting
 juxtaposition between
pastoral and gothic
 imagery
Lewis Carroll
“Through the Looking Glass”
 conflict
 satire
 portmanteau words
 view of language
Do you want to turn your lowest daily grade
into a 100? Then memorize the poem
“Jabberwocky” (in packet) and perform in
front of the class the day after the test on the
Victorian period!