Jane Eyre Vocabulary

Flashcards for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

The Victorian Era was characterized by strict organizing principles and expectations of and .

gender, class

A recurring idea or concept within a text that is used by the author to develop and convey core messages or meaning is a .

Theme

A person who does not belong to a particular circle, community, or group is known as .

The Outsider

Also known as a 'coming-of-age' story, a is a common narrative structure in novels, exploring social, moral or psychological tensions.

Bildungsroman

A means of categorising or classifying texts based on commonalities in convention is called .

Genre

Wild, remote and inhospitable settings; conflicts and struggles for power; and the uncanny, the sublime and the supernatural are examples of .

Gothic Literature

Objects, people or things that are at once strange yet familiar, recognisable yet unrecognisable is known as .

The Uncanny

Experiences that are not beautiful or enjoyable, but which are thrilling because they are terrifying or overwhelming is known as .

The Sublime

A person who is at once charismatic, mysterious and perceptive, and yet arrogant, lacking in self-control, darkly brooding, standing in counterpoint to conventional modes of behaviour is a .

Byronic Hero

A class of word that modifies a verb is an .

Adverb

A class of word that modifies a noun is an .

Adjective

A rhetorical device whereby a narrator ‘speaks’ directly to the reader, as if in conversation, through the use of the personal pronoun “you” or phrases such as “dear reader” is .

Direct Address

A word or phrase, included within a sentence and demarcated by commas, that allows for the addition of meaning, opportunities for authorial voice, and/or clarifying details is known as .

Parenthetical elements