ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST I          SECOND TERM          FORM 5ALS

1. Virginia Woolf was never allowed to attend any school due to the Victorian rules about education. She was helped by his father, an intellectual and writer, and his mather, who taught her Latin.

2. Virginia Woolf's trauma of his life was her mother death. After it, her father sold their house and, after a few years, her sister and her father died.

3. The Bloomsbury Group was a small group of intellectual who worked in London. They discussed the values of personal relationship and other subjects, without an active role in society.

4. The novel in which Virginia Woolf experimented with new narrative techniques in Mrs. Dalloway.

5. The Common Reader is a collection of essays published in 1932. the title may refer to the readers who read for personal enjoyment.

6. Virginia Woolf is considered a Modernist novelist because in her novels there is not an intrusive omniscient narrator and her novels require the readers' attention and thoughts in order to make several meaning.

7. In Virginia Woolf's novels, the omniscient narrator disappears and the point of view is moved to characters' minds and flux of thoughts. With an interior perspective, the novel travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of the character's life.

8. The inner and the outer world in Woolf's fiction are connected and they are also indistinguishable: with the free indirect speech (speaking verbs and inverted commas are erased from the novel, unlike traditional form of novel), the character's thought are expressed as a flux and time seems to be stopped.

9. The plot is reduced to the minimum in order to highlight the "stream of consciousness", where the characters express his/her thoughts through free associations.

10. Joyce's characters show their thoughts directly through interior monologue and an incoherent and syntactically unorthodox way. Woolf's characters show their thoughts flow through logical amnd syntactical connection between them.

11. A moment of being is a spritual revelation, where the individual is aware of his true identity, like flashes of awareness. The concept is similar to J. Joyce's epiphany.

12. The most relevant narrative features in the extract Clarissa and Septimus is the mixture of external world, with natural time, and the inner world, the character's mind and thoughts, expressed through free indirect speech. There is no point of logical connection between these two worlds: the structural organization is built up piece by piece, through association, where the character's inner part comes to surface.