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William Shakespeare
What is drama?
Common features include irony, alliteration, and variation.
What is Old English Poetry?
A frame story about religious pilgrims on a road trip.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
He compiled The Dictionary of the English Language.
Who is Samuel Johnson?
Bede
(DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME HIS FAMOUS WORK)
What is English history?
"The Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero. It includes a setting that is broad in scope and a necessary journey or battle.
What is an epic.
Political satire about a man who travels to foreign lands inhabited by dwarves and giants.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
Romantic author whose novels are generally about women looking for suitable husbands.
What is Jane Austen?
Sir Phillip Sidney
What is poetry?
"An Apology for Poetry"
This emphasizes an adventurous knight's quest, acts of chivalry, and the ideals of a civilized society.
What is medieval romance.
Fictional travelogue using the style of journalistic realism that some consider the first novel written in the English language.
What is Robinson Crusoe?
His poetry is considered among the most imaginative in English literature; it includes "The Lamb" and "The Tyger."
Who is William Blake?
Gulliver’s Travels
Who is Jonathan Swift?
Petrarch, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt.
What are sonnets?
This genre dominated romantic literature.
What is poetry.
The first modern feminist manifesto.
What is A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
The Ploughman Poet from Scotland who authored "Auld Lang Syne."
Who is Robert Burns?
Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
John Donne
What is metaphysical poetry?
The Romantic Period saw this genre develop and eventually replace the epic in popularity.
What is the novel.
I shot the albatross.
What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Most well-known Romantic poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley about a crumbling ancient statue
What is "Ozymandias?"
Paradise Lost
Who is John Milton?