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History
100
The Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer
100
Gulliver's Travels
Who is Jonathan Swift
100
What is a two-word poetic renaming of people, places and things such as "Whale's homes" = "the sea"
What is a kenning
100
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"
What is The Witches in Macbeth
100
A group of invaders from Germany. They eventually took over more and more of what is now England
What is the Anglo-Saxons
200
The Pardoner's Tale
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer
200
A Dictionary of the English Language
Who is Samuel Johnson
200
Rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines where the reciter of the incantation could pause for a breath
What is a caesura
200
"Unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty"
Who is Lady Macbeth
200
Middle English was a combination of these two main languages
What is German(Anglo-Saxons), French(Normans)
300
Macbeth
Who is Shakespeare
300
The Rape of the Lock
Who is Alexander Pope
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables
What is alliteration
300
"The world is too much with us;late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Who is William Wordsworth
300
A time period in which scholars reacted against what they saw as the "dark ages" of medieval Europe and they revived the learning of ancient Greece and Rome. They wanted to bring about a rebirth of civilization
What is the Renaissance
400
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Who is John Donne
400
On My First Son
Who is Ben Johnson
400
a long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of a legendary hero
What is an epic
400
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge
400
Queen Mary, who ordered the execution of 300 Protestants in the mid-fifteen hundreds was nicknamed this:
What is Bloody Mary
500
Paradise Lost
Who is John Milton
500
To His Coy Mistress
Who is Andrew Marvell
500
uses actions, thoughts, and dialogue to reveal a character's personality. By saying "he was not gaily dressed," for instance, suggests that a knight is not vain and perhaps takes the pilgrimage seriously enough to rush to join in straight to battle.
What is indirect characterization
500
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit /Of that forbidden tree, whose mrotal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe, /With loss of Eden....
Who is John Milton
500
Labor Unions began in this literary time period
What is the Romantic Period
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