VICTORIAN PERIOD TEST REVIEW Test is this Friday Yes! I will post this on english12classroom.pbworks.com

What is on this test?  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…  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!!!!

 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  Word music  Meter  Rhyme  Alliteration  Assonance  Plot  Climax

“Lady of Shalott” continued  Images  Contrasting images  Foreshadowing  Metrical form

“Ulysses”  Theme  Difference between theme and subject  Personification  Characterize

“Pied Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins  Assonance  Alliteration  Antithesis  Inverted word order  Unusual compound  Invented word  Praise poem

“ My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning  Dramatic monologue  Inferences  Tone

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning  Petrarchan sonnet  Turn  Rhythm

“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman  Couplet  Exact rhyme  Half rhyme  Alliteration

“ Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold  Mood  Atmosphere  Image  Figure of speech

TPCASTT…What?  Ttitle  P paraphrase  C connotation/and any other lit terms you see  A attitude  S shifts  T title  T theme

 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” TPCASTTTPCASTT

“Lady of Shalot”  By Lord Alfred Tennyson or if you don’t like his royal title, Alfred Tennyson.

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning TPCASTTTPCASTT

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning TPCASTTTPCASTT

“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman TPCASTTTPCASTT

“Pied of Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins TPCASTTTPCASTT

“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold TPCASTTTPCASTT

TPCASTT “Ulysses” TPCASTTTPCASTT

“Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson  Personification  characterize

“Ulysses” the writing prompt  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”  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  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.  Thesis  1#  2#  3#  4# ( if you have it)  Conclusion