Genre
Very long, narrative poem that details the journey and adventures of a hero
What is an epic?
time of knights and chivalry, when acts of valor were celebrated
What is the Medieval period?
A hero battles a monster that is ravaging the mead halls.... and then the monster's mom.... and then a greedy dragon!
What is Beowulf?
Wrote Frankenstein
Who is Mary Shelley?
Name of the ruling monarch for Shakespeare's early plays
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
14- line poem that expresses emotions; Shakespeare wrote a lot of these
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare's Era
What is the Renaissance?
A group of pilgrims tell stories to pass the time on their way to the Holy Land of Jerusalem
What is The Canterbury Tales?
Wrote Dubliners
Who is James Joyce?
What country's sad situation did Swift write about in "A Modest Proposal"?
Ireland
Uses criticism to point out shortcomings of society, often through humor and exaggeration
What is satire?
Poems of Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; Frankestein
What is the Romantic period?
An archangel falls from power and plans out his own dominion
Bonus: What is the OTHER title we read that takes place in the same setting many years later?
What is Paradise Lost?
What is The Screwtape Letters?
Poet who wrote The Waste Land... and also lots of poems about cats!
Who is T. S. Eliot?
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
What is 37?
characterized by dark, often eerie, imagery; interest in the supernatural
What is Gothic literature?
"The Lady of Shalott"; "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave"; novels of the Bronte sisters
What is the Victorian period?
A valiant knight seeks out one who to behead him (did we really read this stuff!?)
What is "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"?
Wrote A Modest Proposal
Who is Jonathan Swift?
Finish the quote:
"This above all: to thine ________ __________ ________ __________."
What is "own self be true"?
Compound metaphor used in Anglo-Saxon poetry
ex. whale road
What is a kenning?
"A Modest Proposal"; "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"; other well-reasoned arguments
What is the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment?
translates to "The Death of Arthur"
What is Le Morte d'Arthur?
Romantic poet who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Finish the line:
"therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls ________ __________."
What is "for thee"?