Literary Eras
Texts during the Anglo-Saxon period, like Beowulf, were written in this language.
This author thought tradegies were the best representation of humanity.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Both Beowulf and Hamlet took place in this country.
What is a Denmark?
Two things or event being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
This actress is dating Tom Holland.
Who is Zendaya?
This literary movement heavily focused on human rights, reasoning and logic, and advances in science and math.
What is the Enlightenment?
Aldous Huxley wrote this dystopian novel as a reaction against an optimist outlook on creating a perfect world.
What is Brave New World?
In The Kite Runner, Assef gave Amir a book about this person on his birthday, which foreshadowed his future actions and radicalism.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Laertes was considered this type character to Hamlet because his differences highlighted Hamlet's flaws and decisions.
What is a foil character?
Making $636 million domestically and $1.442 billion worldwide, this movie was the highest-grossing film in 2023.
What is Barbie?
John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" belongs to this literary era.
What is Puritan?
This author critiqued society's view and institution of marriage, but wasn't married themselves.
Who is Jane Austen?
In "The Pardoner's Tale", the 3 men went to kill _____.
Who is Death?
Canterbury Tales is an example of this type of story because it included tales like The Pardoner's and Wife of Bath's within a larger plot.
What is a frame story?
Drake and Kendrick Lamar both wrote these types of tracks amid their feud, calling one another out.
What are diss tracks?
This monarch is known for being one of the first patrons of Renaissance plays, poems, and literature.
Who is Elizabeth I?
This author was known as the Father of Literature.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer.
A large part of John the Savage's perception of the world in Brave New World was influenced by this person. (It was a common motif and allusion within the novel)
Who is William Shakespeare?
What is a soliloquy?
A Houston-born rapper that topped the Billboard 100 at #1 with "Sicko Mode"
Who is Scott Travis?
In opposition to the Enlightenment era, Romanticism focused on this concept more heavily.
What are emotions?
This group of people most likely transcribed Beowulf and is the reason that there are Christian elements in a text that originated from a pagan culture.
Who are the monks?
In "The Masque of the Red Death", this object symbolized that Death was closing in on Prince Prospero and his guests.
What is a clock?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
There are these many movies in the Fast and Furious franchise.
What is 12?