Poetry
A medieval poem with an elegiac tone
What is Beowulf?
Shakespeare's traditional poetry form composed of fourteen lines with three quatrains and one couplet
What is an English sonnet?
This novel's opening line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
What is Pride and Prejudice?
The three monsters in Beowulf
Who are Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon?
The era of literature that emphasized self-expression, emotion, and nature in response to the Age of Reason
What is the Romantic Era?
The type of romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What is Chivalric Romance?
An Elizabethan play that tells a "tragical history"
What is Doctor Faustus?
Which of Shakespeare's characters most often speak in his prose in his plays? (High-born or low-born)
What is low-born?
Elizabeth Bennet's close friend who marries a clergyman
Who is Charlotte Lucas?
The blind English poet who wrote in the style of Homer and Virgil
Who was John Milton?
Medieval work written in heroic couplets
What is The Canterbury Tales?
The play in which the characters escape to the "Green World" where issues are resolved
What is As You Like It?
Author of A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Who was Jonathan Swift?
The name of either the main female or male character in As You Like It
The Elizabethan playwright whose real cause of death is a mystery and who was possibly a spy for Queen Elizabeth
Who was Christopher Marlowe?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
The famous theatre on the outskirts of Renaissance London where many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
The genre of prose that recreate a social world and often centers on social classes and marriage
What is novel of manners?
The name of the devil who deals directly with Doctor Faustus
Who is Mephistopheles?
The genre of writing that Jonathan Swift was most known for
What is satire?
An English masterpiece that begins "in media res" like other traditional epics
What is Paradise Lost?
Literary genre that tells of love and life in the countryside
What is pastoral romance?
Third-person omniscient narrator style that presents characters' voices without direct speech
What is Free Indirect Speech?
The angel who tells Adam the story of Satan's rebellion in Paradise Lost
Who is Raphael?
The novelist known for writing novels of manners in the style of literary realism
Who is Jane Austen?