It's all about the Tudors.. or is it?
This famous playwright stopped writing comedies after the death of his favourite royal.
Who is Willam Shakespeare?
These time periods are names after advances in science and industry as well as the writing style of the Romans and the Greeks.
What are The Enlightenment and Neoclassical Period?
This style of writing became more prevalent that poetry during these time periods.
What is the novel?
Even though we live in current/modern times, the time period we are supposedly in today is called this.
What is Post-Modernism?
Isa's middle name.
What is Emily?
This Queen heralded the Golden Age of British Drama and is nicknamed this.
Who is Queen Elizabeth the 1st and the Virgin Queen.
This time period is named after affairs of the heart, but its themes rarely focused on this topic. This typical theme was used by its authors to express their awe at the world and their surroundings.
What is Romanticism and the Sublime?
This time period overlapped with the Queenly era and was a response to the themes in the Romantic period.
What is Realism?
This style of writing is essentially the speaker/narrator's train of thought.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
This everyday condiment found in almost every restaurant throughout the U.S. was first sold as a medicine.
What is ketchup?
This King was married 6 times and changed the religion in GB from _____ to ______.
Who is King Henry 8th and Catholicism to Protestantism (Church of England)
This popular theme in the period following the restoration of the royals is the rejection of a topic that caused most of the conflict in the previous time periods.
What is religion (organised religion)?
This time period was a response to the idea that writing should focus on the reality of life, but that life wasn't as negative as it was being portrayed.
What is naturalism?
These poets wrote in response to major world events, many of them died very young, and wrote of these themes.
Who are War Poets and innocence, death, identity and patriotism?
In this movie, Troy and Gabriella reunite after meeting at a New Year's Eve party.
What is High School Musical?
This time period and subcategories follow the Middle English Period and come before Neoclassim and the Englightenment
What is the Renaissance and the Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, and Commonwealth Ages?
Literary historians argue that these two poets wrote this collection of poetry to mark the start of Romanticism.
Who are (William) Wordsworth and (Samuel) Coleridge and their Lyrical Ballads?
This Queen has a literary period named after her and was the royal at the height of the empire controlling this % of the world.
Who are Queen Victoria and 1/4 of the world's landmass and population.
This style of writing emerged during modernism and essentially focused on responding to existing literature.
What is literary criticism/critique?
This actor does the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movies.
Who is Tom Hanks?
These two groups of poets emerged during the Civil War in 1642 and held these beliefs/themes to be true in their writing.
Who are the Cavalier and Metaphysical poets?
Cavalier - Carpe Diem and support for King Charles 1
Metaphysical - More abstract lyrics poets - focused on beauty, love and religion.
The switch in focus from science, logic and the power of reason to creativity, emotion and nature are examples of this theory in literature, culture, and politics, etc.
What is the Pendulum Theory.
The change in living population from the country to the city caused by the industrial revolution as well as the increasing number of writers who are not wealthy aristocrats led to the appearance of these themes in literature.
What is the focus on the impact of change and upheaval, and the inequality between social classes?
This is the reason why themes became varied and essentially open during Modernism and Post-Modernism.
Open answer - end of the Empire, English as a worldwide language, the UK having people from all around the world, impact from countries that used to be part of the British Empire, etc.
This has a head and a tail but does not have a body.
What is a coin?