Literary periods
The Machine Stops
Mixed
Vocabulary
Grammar
100

A literary movement that focused on emotion, nature, and individualism


Romanticism

100

The name of the main female character who lives underground

Vashti

100

This Swedish singer won Eurovision song contest with the song “Euphoria” in 2012

Loreen

100

The opposite of “increase”

Decrease

100

The past tense of “go”

Went

200

This period, beginning in the late 19th century, focused on depicting everyday life as it truly was 

Realism

200

This character rebels against the Machine and seeks real-world experience


Kuno

200

This language is spoken by the most people in the world as their native language

Mandarin (Chinese)

200

The meaning of essential in English

Extremely important or necessary

200

A word that describes a noun

Adjective

300

Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets during this period

The renaissance

300

The story critiques this aspect of modern society

Technology

300

The largest internal organ in the human body

The liver

300

Translate indifferent

Likgiltig; bryr sig inte

300

Describe genitive

Marks belonging: Mathilda’s cat

400

Luxury and indulgence were centered in this period

Decadent movement

400

The author

E.M Forster

400

This chemical element has the symbol “Au”

Gold

400

Translate ambiguous

Tvetydig, mångtydig, oklar

400

Describe subject-verb agreement

Add an -s after the verb when singular, not when plural (Mathilda runs)

500

Describe nihilism

Life is meaningless

500

The short story's genre

Dystopia

500

This is the name of the longest river in South America

Amazon River

500

Translate exacerbate

Förvärra

500

What is the subject, object and predicative in this sentence?

Mathilda lies to her cat

Mathilda (subject) lies (predicative) to her cat (object)

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