VICTORIAN PERIOD TEST REVIEWTest 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? T title 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

“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

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning

T P C A S T T

“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

T P C A S T T

“Pied of Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins

T P C A S T T

“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold

T P C A S T T

TPCASTT “Ulysses”

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