History
From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, they brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles from 410 to 800 AD.
Anglo-Saxons
An Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines. It is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English.
Beowulf
What is the language that Canterbury Tales is written in?
Middle English
King Lear is what kind/type of play?
He arrived in 597 to convert most of the country to Christianity.
He arrived in 597 to convert most of the country to Christianity.Saint Augustine
The author of Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer
This is the language of Beowulf.
Old English
This play is a tragic love story about two families in the midst of a bloody feud.
Romeo and Juliet
A style of contemptuous and abrasive satire.
Juvenalian
He appears as a heroic British general and a Christian warrior, during the tumultuous late fifth century, when Anglo-Saxon tribes were attacking Britain.King Authur
King Authur
The most influential English writer of all time.
William Shakespeare
The ideal man of chivalry. Courteous.
The knight?
The main plot of this play depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and the headstrong Katherina.
The Taming of the Shrew
A literary style characterized by excessive use of devices such as alliteration, antithesis, and simile.
What is Euphism?
English royal house of Welsh origin ruling the Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland from 1485 until 1603.House of Tudor
House of Tudor
He authored Paradise Lost.
Milton
This band wrote the hit song I'll Melt With You
Modern English
In this play, the protagonist wanders around the English camp in disguise, trying to comfort his soldiers and determine what they really think of him.
Henry V
type of fiction that features the adventures of a roguish hero.
What is a picaresque?
The 5 monarchs of Tudor.Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
The author of a satirical essay that suggests impoverished Irish should sell their children as food to the wealthy to ease their economic stress.
Jonathan Swift
This is a long-form poem often detailing adventure, trials, and battle.
The Epic Poem
Constructed of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) followed by a final couplet, these are composed in iambic pentameter, and follow the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Sonnets
A literary device used to induce a tender emotional response to a situation.
What is sentimentality.