Vocabulary
Old and Middle English
Elizabethan and Romantic
Victorian
Twentieth Century
100

This poem has fourteen lines that follow a rhyme scheme, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

What is sonnet?

100

It is the earliest form of the English language

What is Old English ?

100

Known as the "Bard of Avon"

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

The period saw the rise of the novel.

What is Victorian period?

100

William Butler Yeats and Thomas Stearns Eliot wrote Modernist poems during the period.

Did they write Modernist poems in 20th Century?

200

This refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings.

What is lyric poetry?

200

One significant work written in Old English

What is Beowulf?

200

This period is the golden age of English literature.

What is Elizabethan literature?

200

He was considered to be the greatest English novelist of the 19th century and wrote Great Expectations.

Who is Charles Dickens

200

He wrote The Tower, The Winding Stair, and New Poems,

What did William Butler Yeats write?

300

This is a long narrative poem usually about a hero and his deeds.

What is epic poem?

300

It is the longest epic poem in Old English. It is known for its use of kennings.

What is Beowulf?

300

This period is the golden age of lyric poetry.

What is romantic period?

300

He is known for his dramatic monologues, wrote the famous poem “My Last Duchess.”

Who is Robert Browning?

300

His masterpieces are “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land.”

What were Thomas Stearns Eliot masterpieces?

400

This is a long prose narrative usually about fictional characters and events, which are told in a particular sequence.

What is novel?

400

It is a blend Old English and Norman French

What is Middle English?

400

His best plays include Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice.

Who is William Shakespeare?

400

He is the best dramatist of the period. He wrote the masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.

Who is Oscar Wilde?

500

This piece of writing tells a story through dialogue, and it is performed on stage.

What is drama?

500

The father of English literature

Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?