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Friday, April 16, 2021

Questions on the video Why should we read Virginia Woolf?




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1.    Is ‘A room of one’s own’ a novel or an essay?

2.    What could have happened to an imaginary sister of William Shakespeare if she had decided to be a writer?

3.    What’s a synonym of concocts?

4.    Her characters lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. What does it mean in other words?

5.    How many losses did she have in 10 years?

6.    What does the word sibling mean?

7.    What literary movement did the members of the Bloomsbury group belong to?

8.    What was she reading while writing Mrs Dalloway?

9.    What does the expression shell-shocked veteran mean?

10.         In ‘The waves’ we can see a special feature of modernism- the split-up of the self. What does the sentence I’m many mean?

11.         In the novel ‘Orlando’ is the main character a man or a woman?

12.         To conclude, what does she focus on in her books? (which represents a typical feature of Modernism)


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