ANGLO-SAXON
These believers in animism are the earliest known settlers of what we call Great Britain.
Who are the Celts?
These warriors followed a code of chivalry.
Who are knights?
This is what the word "renaissance" means.
What is rebirth?
The Restoration is also known as the Age of ______.
What is reason? OR What is enlightenment?
He wrote many sonnets and plays, including Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the most well-known and highly-regarded piece of Anglo-Saxon literature.
What is Beowulf?
This is the social structure introduced by William the Conqueror from France.
What is feudalism?
This philosophy emphasizes man's ability, how to be a good person, and finding wisdom in the classics.
What is humanism?
___________ is the belief that reason and logic are to be valued above all else.
What is rationalism?
The three sonnet poets that we read.
Who are Shakespeare, Petrarch, and Spenser?
This style of literature is most common in Anglo-Saxon times; Beowulf is an example of it.
What is epic poetry?
This song-like poem style became popular in the Middle Ages.
What is a ballad?
"To be or not to be" is probably the most well-known soliloquy from this Renaissance tragedy.
What is Hamlet?
This religious philosophy view God as a clockmaker who created the world and then stepped back to watch it work, uninvolved as a spectator.
What is deism?
This "father of English poetry" wrote The Canterbury Tales but died before he finished it.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
"Whale-road" and "water-witch" are examples of which Anglo-Saxon metaphorical device?
What is a kenning?
This style of story involving a hero on a magical quest became very popular in the Middle Ages.
What is the romance?
The king who commissioned the best known English Bible translation.
Who is King James?
This type of writing (very popular in the Restoration) pokes fun at society's weaknesses in an effort to change them.
What is satire?
This is the name of the legends of King Arthur story we read in class. (Must be complete.)
What is "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"?
This is the name of the chieftain in Beowulf.
The pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are headed to the site of this martyred saint.
Who is Thomas Becket?
This type of Renaissance poetry is 14 lines and has a very particular rhyme scheme and meter.
What is a sonnet?
These two works are probably Jonathan Swift's most well-known writings.
What are "A Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels?
This Renaissance poet's Holy Sonnets include "Death, be not proud."
Who is John Donne?