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Virginia Woolf is associated with which formal technique?

  1. Heroic couplet
  2. Stream of consciousness
  3. Shakespearean sonnet
  4. Ballad stanza
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Correct answer: B. Stream of consciousness

1. Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse use interior, free indirect narration. 2. The term 'stream of consciousness' attaches canonically to her and Joyce. 3. It contrasts with the omniscient Victorian narrator. _Source: Coverage brief — Modernist canon — "Modern + Postmodern: ... Woolf"_

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Virginia Woolf is associated with which technique?

  1. Heroic couplet
  2. Stream of consciousness
  3. Ballad stanza
  4. Pastoral elegy
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Correct answer: B. Stream of consciousness

1. Mrs Dalloway uses stream of consciousness. 2. To the Lighthouse extends the technique. 3. Free indirect discourse is her signature. _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Modern + Postmodern: ... Woolf"_

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'Mrs Dalloway' was written by:

  1. Iris Murdoch
  2. Virginia Woolf
  3. George Eliot
  4. Jane Austen
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Correct answer: B. Virginia Woolf

1. Woolf published Mrs Dalloway in 1925. 2. It traces one day in London after WWI. 3. It is a foundational Modernist novel. _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Modern + Postmodern: ... Woolf"_

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