HISTORIA 1
Shakspeare's sonnets are divided into ... subunits according to their main themes and addressees.
Three
In the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims set off their journey in..., London.
Tabard Inn
Tavern Inn
Talbot Inn
Tabard Inn
Which literary feature wasn't introduced by the Normans?
End-rhyme, Romances or alliteration
Alliteration
Within which period Britain was known as the “United Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland”?
Neoclassicism
True or False?
A thane was a poet as represented in Old English poetry.
False
SCOP
Who translated the French poem Le Roman de la Rose, a trendsetter of the Romance genre?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mention (chronologically) the literary subunits within Neoclassicism.
The Restoration, The Augustan Period and The Age of Johnson
Which was the problem with the baby depicted in The First Year of My Life?
The baby couldn't smile.
Mary Shelley is best known as the Romantic author behind a classic Gothic story by the name...
Frankenstein
In British Romanticism, old generation poets were influenced by...?
French Revolution ideals (Liberty, Fraternity and Equality)
Which animal symbolisms did William Blake use in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, respectively?
A lamb and a tiger, respectively
Henry David Thoreau belonged to this literary genre.
Transcendentalism
In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses symbolism in his choice of towns. Mention them and account for their rhetorical use.
Canterbury: religion
Bath: entertainment
Oxford: learning
America's colonial beginnings is marked by this European philosophy...
Puritanism
"The empire on which the sun never sets" was coined as a phrase within which literary period?
Victorian Literature (Imperialism)
The fact that everything is relative to the eyes of the beholder shapes which literary movement?
Modernism
Thomas Hardy represents this literary genre.
(Mention whether it's British or American as well)
British Naturalism
Account for Ernest Hemingway's ice-berg writing technique.
Readers' involvement - The deeper meaning of a story should not be evident on the surface, but should shine through implicitly.
Literary genre that was banned under Oliver Cromwell's rule as Lord Protector.
Drama
Which poem was this line taken from? Who is the author?
Which is the bliss of solitude
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Benjamin Franklin would write pieces of "fake news" and publish them in local magazines. This literary genre goes by the names...
Hoax or Tall tale
What does the narrator in Donald Barthelme's The Glass Mountain do as soon as he reaches the top?
He climbs the mountain to disenchant a symbol. He throws the princess headfirst.
Local colour in dialogues is a characteristic feature pertaining to this movement.
American Realism
Which was Postmodern British author Muriel Spark's real (full) name?
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Account for epiphany and paralysis in James Joyce's Eveline.
Epiphany (fleeting moment of hope with Frank, an Irish sailor who says he will marry her)
Paralysis (both physical and emotional - she's loyal to the promise she had made to her mother)