Old English
Name one Old English story.
Beowulf
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Name one famous writer from this period.
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Name one Victorian author.
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Kate Chopin
Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
Robert Frost
Who does Beowulf fight?
Grendel
What event started this period?
The Norman Conquest
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
What was common in Victorian stories?
Social struggles
Name one Modernist author.
T.S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
Robert Frost
How was literature spread during this period?
Oral tradition
What language influenced English then?
French
What number is the sonnet that is also known as "Shall I Compere Thee To a Summers Day"?
Sonnet 18
Which story did you read that showed women’s independence?
The Story of an Hour
What events shaped Modern writing?
World War I and World War II
- World Wars
Around what year did this period start?
450
When does this period begin?
1066
What movement shaped this era?
Humanism
What happens at the end of that story?
Mrs. Mallard dies
What is “fragmentation”?
Breaking the story into parts
What kind of literature was common?
Epic poetry
When did this period end?
1500
What does “Man’s first disobedience” refer to?
Adam and Eve’s sin
Name one thing that shaped Victorian writing?
Industrialization and social reform
Who was the first Aboriginal woman poet?
Oodgeroo Noonuccal