Name all periods of British literature
Anglo-Saxon period
Norman period
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Victorian period
Modernism
The author of «Oliver Twist».
Charles Dickens
A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event.
Anecdote
The definition of “Plot”
The effect of the structure and relationship of the actions, events and characters in a fictional work.
to reign
Царствовать
Date of Colonial period of American literature
1607-1775
Who is Anne Bradstreet? Name her works.
Anne Bradstreet – the first woman to be recognized as a New World Poetess in the Colonial Period. She wrote about personal matters and the role of women. The famous works are “Meditation”, “To my Husband”.
An intellectual movement that developed in the seventeenth century in western Europe and lasted till the nineteenth century.
Enlightenment
Give a definition to the "Lost Generation"
Lost Generation is a term that Gertrude Stein coined for a group of American writers and intellectuals who were against the post World War I materialistic values of America.
Нетрадиционный
Unconventional
The period when the colonists stopped copying the formal style of British writers.
The Revolutionary age (1765-1790)
Representatives of British Renaissance
W. Shakespeare
The answer for this question can be given only by Mr. Know-it-all.
(Which literary device is this?)
Antonomasia - a literary term in which a descriptive phrase replaces a person’s name.
The intellectual theft of an artistic or literary work, and reproduction of the whole, part of theme of the work as one's own.
Plagiarism
Implications
Последствия
The most influential historical event of Early National period?
Declaration of American independence on July 4, 1776
Name Afro-American writers
Frederick Douglass, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison.
Name the stylisic device
“It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.”
Anaphora
Who is the "Static Character"?
A character that does not undergo any change in personality throughout the course of a narrative. Such characters are also called a "flat character".
Угнетатели
Oppressors
Characteristics of Naturalism
Determinism, objectivism, pessimism, a surprising twist at the end of the story.
Who is “the founding father of American Humor”?
Mark Twain
“You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe.”(The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz (By L. Frank Baum)
Triple
Explain the term "Suspense"
Suspense refers to the anxious anticipation that readers or audience experience with respect to the future course of events, or what will happen to the characters in the narrative.
Охватывать
To encompass