BRIT LIT~ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ch.1-11)

Who is the author of the Picture of Dorian Gray?

Oscar Wilde

How did Wilde build his own reputation as a minor luminary?

by dating celebrities

How did the press picture Wilde?

in unflattering cartoons

After Wilde's death, why did his friends and acquaintances destroy his letters?

fear that

their own reputations would be tainted by his scandal

What movement proposed that art did not have to serve moral or political

ends?

Aestheticism

Why did 19th century readers not like realism?

they show that reader uncomfortable

truths about themselves (both as individuals and as a society) that they are not prepared

to deal with.

According to Wilde, what should art be praised by?

Its sheer beauty

According to Lord Henry, what is the one thing in the world worse than being talked

about?

Not being talked about

According to Basil, who had the best of it in this world?

The ugly and the stupid

What feature did Dorian like best in Lord Henry?

His voice

What is the one thing worth having?

Youth

What word was a dreadful word?

Always

In what color did Basil sign his name?

Vermillion (red)

" He was _____ to be _______."

made;worshipped

"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational ______. It was the most premature

definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not _______."

animal;rational

What did Lord Henry say was fashionable?

Marrying Americans

What did Lord Henry want to change about England?

The weather

What did Dorian like most about Lord Henry?

The way he talked

What reason did Lord Henry give Dorian to not marry a woman with straw-colored hair?

They are so sentimental.

Who is Dorian in love with?

Sibyl Vane

What did Lord Henry do when Dorian told him about the theater?

He laughed

Behind every _______ thing that existed, there was something ______."

exquisite;tragic

"...the only things one never _____ are one's ______."

regrets;mistakes

What did the theater manager refer to as "the Bard"?

Shakespeare

According to Dorian, when was Sibyl "Sibyl Vane"?

Never

For Lord Henry, what was the one thing worth investigating?

Human life

What is the name we give to our mistakes?

Experience

"The sin we had done once, and with ______, we would do many times, and with _____."

loathing;joy

According to Sibyl, who ruled life for them now?

Prince Charming

What held the secret of Dorian's life?

The portrait

"She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent. They were horribly _____."

disappointed

Who did Dorian blame for the breakup between him and Sibyl?

Sibyl

After Dorian rejected Sybil, she said to him, "I ____ you better than anything in the _____."

love;world

"She is quite _______, but she can't act."

beautiful

What was Dorian afraid of?

Certainly

How did Dorian gaze at the portrait? In sickened horror

In sickened horror

"It is the ______, not the priest, that gives us _____."

confession;absolution

"I _____ to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being ____."

want;hideous

"Details are always _______."

vulgar

What did Lord Henry have the greatest contempt for?

Optimism

What is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure?

A cigarette

What had come between Dorian and Basil?

Life

"Women defend themselves by _______."

attacking

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they _____ them; sometimes

they ______ them."

judge;forgive

"To see him is to _____ him; to know him is to ____ him."

worship;trust

"When you see Sibyl Vane, you will feel that the man who could ______ her would be a

beast, a beast without a ______."

wrong;heart

"When she _____, you will forget _________."

acts;everything

Whose name did Dorian repeat over and over?

Sibyl's

Who did Dorian say he would not see anymore?

Lord Henry

What is the tone of the Preface?

Formal

In Lord Henry's opinion, what did women appreciate more than anything else?

Cruelty

What was to bear the burden of Dorian's shame?

The portrait

"If one doesn't talk about a _____, it has never ______."

thing;happened

Why was Dorian sure he would not be summoned for the inquest?

No one knew his name

Who did Dorian ask Basil to draw for him?

Sibyl

What was dearer to Basil than fame or reputation?

Dorian's friendship

" I only knew that I had seen ______ face to face."

perfection

"As I said to Harry, once, you are made to be _____."

worshipped

When did Dorian say Basil would be allowed to see the portrait?

Never

"Perhaps one should _____ put one's worship into ____."

never;words

"There is something _______ about a portrait. It has a life of its ____."

fatal;own

Who did Dorian think could have saved him?

Basil

Who did Mr. Hubbard make exceptions for?

Dorian Gray

"There was something about Dorian that ______ everybody. It was a pleasure even to

____ him."

charmed;see

What did Dorian hope might come across his life and purify and shield him?

Love

The book " was a ____ without a plot and with only ____ character".

novel;one

"It was a _________ book."

poisonous

"He had ______ the look of one who had kept himself unspotted from the _______."

always;world

Which ritual had always had a great attraction for Dorian?

The Roman Catholic

LWhat did the painted gourds filled with pebbles do? Rattled when they were shaken

Rattled when they were shaken

What was the huge cylindrical drum covered with?

Serpent skins

"No winter marred his _____ or stained his flowerlike ____."

face;bloom

What did the garnet do?

Cast out demons

What were the treasures that Dorian had collected a means of?

Forgetfulness

Dorian would smile "with secret pleasure at the misshapen ______ that had to bear the

burden that should have been his ______".

shadow;own

What did whispered scandals increase in Dorian?

His strange and dangerous charm

What did Dorian "get" from his mother?

Her beauty and her passion for the beauty of

others

Which chapter of the book did Dorian think was fantastic?

7th

What had Dorian been poisoned by?

The book

Dandy

a man unduly devoted to style, neatness, and fashion in dress and appearance

Aphorism

(a pithy[concise] observation that contains a general truth

Caliban

half-man and half-brute monster, capable of reasoning and language, but also

physically ugly in his actions.

Sullen

showing a brooding ill humor

Truculent

defiantly aggressive

brevity

the attribute of being short or fleeting

Hedonism

the devotion to pleasure as a way of life

Genial

diffusing warmth and friendliness

Wry

humorously sarcastic or mocking

myriad

a large indefinite number

11. malady

impairment of normal physiological function

Arbitrary

based on or subject to individual discretion or preference

Personification

a literary device in which an author grants human characteristics to

nonhuman objects, animals, or ideas.

Simile

a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" or "as"

Tableau

any dramatic scene

Callous

emotionally hardened

Florid

elaborately or excessively ornamented

Sanguine

a blood-red color

Stagnation

a state of inactivity

mauve

a moderate purple

21. Atone

make amends for