Authors
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
the Venerabe Bede
Morte Darthur
Sir Thomas Malory
What selection teaches the important lesson that death comes for every man when least expected?
Everyman
What period were Shakespeare, and the Spenserian stanza from?
Elizabethan
What is the oldest surviving Germanic epic?
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Sonnet 116"
Shakespeare
What selection describes an imaginary ideal society?
Utopia
What period was the Pearl Poet, mystery play, "Bonny Barbara Ann," and romances such as King Arthur and Sir Gawain in?
Medieval Period
What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period?
drama
Sir Walter Raleigh
Utopia
What selection shows the speaker's response to God's chastening?
"A Hymn to God the Father"
What period would you find "Bookworm," a scop, and the love of freedom and strong convictions?
Anglo-Saxon Period
What represented allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul?
Morality play
Ben Johnson
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
What selection is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?
"On the Life of Man"
What type of play was Macbeth?
Tragedy
What is based primarily on the adventures of knights, kings, or distressed ladies?
Medieval Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
the Pearl Poet
The Book of Martyrs
John Foxe
What selection teaches that the root of all evil is money?
"The Pardoner's Tale"
What three periods have we learned about this year?
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Elizabethan
What is a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson?
exemplum