The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was big in this century.
What is the 18th century?
What is the 1700s?
It was the main theme in much Romantic literature.
What is nature?
The furry animal plays a role in many Gothic stories.
What is a cat?
They brought Scandinavian loan words into English.
Who were the Vikings?
Who were the Danes and the Norwegians?
They played women's roles in Shakespeare's plays.
What is boys?
Who are boys?
He was the greatest German Enlightenment philosopher.
Who was Immanuel Kant?
The Romantics disliked them because they spoiled the beautiful countryside.
What are trains?
What are factories?
It is the colour of death in Poes story of the masqued ball.
What is red?
They left Britannia around 410 and made room for the Anglo-Saxons.
Who were the Romans?
Shakespeare was famous for writing this type of 14 line poem.
What is a sonnet?
It is Latin, and it means "Dare to think".
What is "Sapere aude"?
He wrote the poem "The Echoing Green".
Who was William Blake?
The word Gothic refers to the architecture of the period before the Renaissance.
What is the Middle Ages?
What is medieval?
They came from France and invaded England in 1066.
Who were the Normans?
The first 37 years of his life, Shakespeare lived under this queen.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
Thomas Jefferson made sure that Enlightenment values featured strongly in this important American document.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
He went to live in the woods in America - and wrote a book about it.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
Poe's narrative poem features this bird in a central role.
What is a raven?
His stories about pilgrims form the greatest literary work in Middle English.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
What is iambic pentameter?
What are iambs?
Who is Lea Ypi?
He painted idyllic English farming landscapes.
Who was John Constable?
It is the novel that launched Gothic fiction in 1764.
What is "The Castle of Otranto"?
It is the Latin term for a common language between people who have different mother tongues.
What is a lingua franca?
Shakespeare was born in this small provincial town.
What is Stratford?
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?