His Life | His Works | Times | Literary Element | Russia 1812 |
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Who is Adele?
Victor Hugo's wife.
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What is Les Misérables?
One of his most famous works, examines the natures of law and grace.
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Who is Napoleon
The Emperor Victor Hugo's father served under.
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What is the setting?
Russia outside of Moscow
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What is Russia outside of Moscow?
the Setting
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Who is Napoleon III
The person Victor insulted getting him exiled from France.
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What is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
One of his most famous works criticizing a society that shuns people who are different.
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Who is Napoleon III
Took over France after being elected. Staged a coup.
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What is a simile?
"The solitude, vast, terrible to the eye,
was like a mute avenger everywhere," (pg 1018 lines 25-26) |
Who is the Eagle
Napoleon's nickname
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What is Besançon, France?
The location of Hugo's birth.
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What is "The Last Days of a Condemned Man"?
Explores the thoughts, fears and feelings of a man about to die.
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What is Romanticism
Art and Literature Movement focused on emotion. Idealized nature and lifestyles of those close to nature. Believed the Individual was important
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What is a metaphor?
"They were no longer living men and troops,
but a dream drifting in a fog, a mystery, mourners parading under the black sky" (pg 1017 lines 22-24) |
Who are the two foes?
The North and the Czar
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What is 10 years of depression?
Occured after his daughter and her husband died.
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What is "The Man Who Laughs"?
One of his works that analyzes relationships between the bourgeoisie and aristocracy are complicated by continual distancing from the lower class.
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What is Realism
Art and Literary movement that stresses the truth. Showed the world as it was.
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What is imagery.
"as snowfall, floating through the quiet air," (pg 1018 line 27)
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What is Nature
What was the worst thing the army faced?
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What is pauper's coffin?
Victor Hugo respected the poor and one of his last requests was to be buried in this.
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What is "Odes et Ballades"?
Collection of Poems
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What is the Second Republic
1848, new republican government. Many people who were exiled returned to France.
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What is hyperbole?
"The went to sleep ten thousand, woke up four" (pg 1019 line 40)
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What is Man vs. Nature
The main conflict
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