The Middle Ages
What battle took place in 1066 and who led it?
The battle of Hastings - William the conquerer
What does the the word Renaissance mean?
Revival/Rebirth
Explain briefly what this period is about...
Rational thinking and scientific studies, writing as a profession. People are born equal. Writers used irony and satire when writing to ridicule those in power and to point out wrong/bad things in society.
What happened during the Romantic Age regarding Literature?
Poetry became a popular genre alongside the gothic and historical novel
Mention one important historical event that took place during this period
The civil war, the abolition of slavery
telegraph, telephone and camera were invented
Which cultures have influenced England?
Germanic tribes, Roman culture, French Culture, The vikings
Shortly explain the development of the theatre and name one famous theatre.
During the Renaissance theatre was established as its own institution and it was now available to the public (not only the court) The Globe
What features were the main topics of international politics?
Slave trade and colonialism
Mention Mary Shelley's famous work
Frankenstein
Who was Charles Dickens and what were his novels often about?
A realist writer interested in everyday life in London. Criticised old social institutions using wit and humour, how unfairly wealth was distributed in society, hardship of children
What are heroic poems and how were they shared?
Share orally by people singing and travelling around telling stories about brave war heroes and their tragic fates
What is a Sonnet?
A form of poetry originating from Italy, with a specific rhyme pattern, English Sonnet = Shakespearean Sonnet - 14 lines (the two last lines rhyme with each other)
The novel emerged as a literary genre during the 17th century, mention what many consider to be the first European novel.... and its author
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
What was Edgar Allan Poe's work The fall of the house of Uscher generally about?
It explores the darkness of the human soul - psychological twists
Double or nothing
What is Walt Whitman's most famous work called?
Leaves of grass
Double or nothing
Which countries did Beowulf protect from monsters and dragons?
Sweden and Denmark
Shakespeare's plays are dividided into the following categories.....
History plays, Comedies and tragedies
Double or nothing
Mention a novel by Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson
Double or nothing
Who was William Blake and what did he write about?
A poet who wrote about the misery of children forced to work in horrific conditions
Who was Oscar Wilde and what were works plays often about
Irish poet and playwright. He wrote satires on the way people behave and think, the importance of marriage and stereotypes in society, moral hypocrisy - people marry for money and security not for love
Mention a famous author from the period and one notable work from the period (doesn't have to be a work of the author mentioned)
Geoffrey Chaucer (the knight's tale, The canterbury tales
Beowulf
Knights of the round table, The legends of King Arthur, by sir Thomas Malory
Double or nothing :)
Shakespeare's plays were often written in blank verse - what is meant by that?
Unrhymed but rhythmic verse (Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter (10 syllables) )
Who was Aphra Behn, also mention her political novel
First professional woman writer who wrote Oronooko or The Royal Slave
Mention a famous novel by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austin
Ivanhoe
Pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility
Who wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë