Most of the storytelling in this time period was of the oral tradition. There are
few written manuscripts that still survive. The major themes of this time were
praise of heroes who triumph in battle and religious/moral instruction. The
predominant genre in this time period was epic poetry.
What is Anglo- Saxon
100
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
What is elegy
100
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor
100
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly wh\ithin a text
What is allusion
200
Fled after death of the king
What is Malcom and Donalbain?
200
This time period marks a shift in literature from a focus on religion and the
afterlife to human life on earth. Two of the most popular themes of the time
were love and human potential. Genres in use at this time included
metaphysical poetry, sonnets, and drama written in verse.
What is Renaissance
200
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables
What is Assonace
200
personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personifiacation
200
repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is parallel structure
300
Tells Macbeth to beware Macduff
What is an armed head?
300
This was the time of knights and their ladies fair. The chivalric code of honor
was very important to literature of this time, and romances became popular.
Religion was still a major reason for literature, as well, and plays that
instructed the illiterate masses in moral codes, called morality plays, were
produced. One of the major genres of this period was the folk ballad.
What is Mideval Period
300
a sound (initial consonant sound) is repeated throughout a line
What is alliteration
300
a punctuation mark used to indicate either possession
What is apostrophe
300
the moral element in dramatic literature
What is the ethos
400
"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me: enough.
What is first apparition?
400
This era heralded the loss of the hero in literature. One of the major themes
was technology’s destruction of society. Poetry began to be written in a style
called free verse. Many novelists began writing in a style called stream of
consciousness. Many works from this time period contain “epiphanies.”
What is Modern/Post Modern
400
A pause
What is Caesura
400
be a warning or indication of a future even
What is foreshadowing
400
the rational principle
What is logos
500
not born of woman
What is Macduff?
500
Authors: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis
Stevenson, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Bronte
Sisters
What is Victorian
500
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
What is an epic?
500
a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
What is paradox
500
a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based