Name that Movement!
The earliest English Literature time period. Typically oral legends or folklore, later written down. Many anonymous or unknown authors
What is medieval?
The Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This period falls between 1910 - 1965
What is Modernism?
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Romeo and Juliet
What is a tragedy?
This period is defined by emotion OVER reason, individuality of thought and feeling. Jane Austen falls within this period, but defies many of the common tropes of this time.
What is the Romantic period?
The Faerie Queene
Who is Edmund Spenser?
This period falls roughly between the 1950s and the 1990s
What is Postmodernism?
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Henry VIII
What is a history?
This period explores social class, morality, and human struggle and is named after a British Queen.
What is the Victorian period?
Middlemarch
Who is George Eliot?
This period falls between 476 and 1500
What is Medieval?
"Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven"
from Paradise Lost by John Milton
Twelfth Night
What is a comedy?
This period is defined by several types of poetry (including lyric, Pastoral, and sonnets) but is also frequently associated with its plays - specifically falling into tragedies, comedies, and histories.
What is the Renaissance?
A Modest Proposal
Who is Jonathan Swift?
This period falls between 1700 and 1800.
What is the Enlightenment?
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
From As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
What is a tragedy?
This period is a response to both WWI and to the increasing impacts of the Industrial Revolution. One of the key literary devices associated with this period is stream of consciousness, made famous by Virginia Woolf.
What is Modernism?
Beowolf
Who is anonymous?
This period falls approximately between the 1820s and 1840s
What is Transcendentalism?
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Midsummer Night's Dream
What is a comedy?