Ancient Stuff
All About Sonnets
Poets
Romantic Era, Victorian Era
WWI
100
The first example of known literature, this poem about a powerful warrior King, from ancient Mesopotamia
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
100
Italian sonnets were largely popular because of this guy
Who is Petrarch?
100
He wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh
What is author unknown?
100
Literature with an emphasis on classicism and sense of nationalism
What is Victorian?
100
The belligerent forces in WWI...
What are the Central Powers and Allied Powers?
200
Early epic poems from Greece were written by this poet
Who is Homer?
200
The popularity of poetry in Italy and the birth of sonnet were rooted in this cultural movement
What is the Renaissance?
200
He wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
Poetry that focused on emotion and feeling and sentimentality
What is Romantic Poetry?
200
word that described how Wilfred Owen's poems were published - after his death
What is posthumously?
300
This epic poem about a Norse warrior king was the first literature to be written in English
What is Beowulf?
300
This guy popularized sonnets in England
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
He wrote Charge of the Light Brigade
Who is Lord Tennyson?
300
Romantic poet, he died while trying to sail across the Gulf of Spezia, was cremated on the beach
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
300
Wilfred Owen was greatly inspired by this fellow WWI Poet
Who is Siegfried Sassoon?
400
The epic poem "The Iliad" is about the Trojan War and this Greek Hero
Who is Achilles?
400
A Sonnet is closed verse poetry, made up this many lines
What is 14?
400
He wrote The Tyger
Who is William Blake?
400
He wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
400
Seigfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were both awarded this distinction for bravery in combat
What is the Military Cross?
500
This epic poem follows the journey of a Greek soldier as he makes his way home after the Trojan war
What is the Odyssey?
500
One of the main differences between and English and Italian Sonnet
What is English sonnets have 3 quatrains and end with a rhyming couplet, Italian sonnets have an octave and sestet?
500
He wrote Dulce et Decorum Est
Who is Wilfred Owen?
500
Charge of the Light Brigade was about a battle in this conflict
What is the Crimean War?
500
Term for what many soldiers suffered from during WWI, likely PTSD by today's standards
What is shellshock?
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