Literary Periods
Name of the period covering the years 1901-present.
What is the Modern Period?
In The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, what topic are the two neighbors discussing?
What is Mr. Badman’s life and eternal state?
Name the author.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
Name the event the old man who tells this tale is attending.
What is a wedding?
Name the word in poetry which means the unit of rhythm which helps us hear the way English marks out a beat when spoken aloud.
What is meter?
Name of the period covering the years 1832-1901.
What is the Victorian Period?
In The Scarlet Pimpernel what physical characteristic about the Scarlet Pimpernel poses the most challenge in each daring escape?
What is disguising his height?
Lady Bracknell comments that she does not want her daughter Gwendolyn to marry someone who was bred in what item?
What is a handbag/parcel?
Name the type of bird that appeared, signaling a good omen for the sailors who were stuck in the ice for days.
What is an albatross?
Tell how many lines of poetry are contained within a sonnet.
What is 14?
Name of the period covering the years 1798-1832.
What is the Romantic Period?
Name the author of Murder on the Orient Express.
Who is Agatha Christie?
Name the food item that both Mr. Worthing and Algernon are eating in the garden after both Gwendolyn and Cecily have stomped off?
What are muffins?
When the mariner killed the bird, name his punishment on the ship.
What is he was forced to wear the albatross around his neck?)
Name the author of The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Name of the period covering the years 1625-1660.
What is the Age of the Puritans?
In A Tale of Two Cities name one character who symbolizes the theme of resurrection.
Who is Doctor Manette, Charles Darnay, or Sydney Carton?
Name the term Algernon uses when he is avoiding his duties and responsibilities by claiming to have appointments to see a fictitious person
What is bunburying?
Finish this well-known line, “Water, water everywhere…”
What is “nor any drop to drink”?
Tell the first two lines in A Tale of Two Cities.
What are “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
Name of the period covering the years 449 to 1066.
What is the Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period?
In Three Men in a Boat name the river in England the men are traveling on for their holiday?
What is the Thames?
Finish this quote by Lady Bracknell: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like _______".
What is carelessness?
Name the author of this poem whose initials are S. T. C.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
In the morality play Everyman, who is the only character who is willing to go with Everyman to his “general reckoning” with God?
Who is Good-Deeds?