General Knowledge
refers to the total of the world's
national literature and the circulation of
works into the wider world beyond their
country of origin
What is World Literature?
The shining star of Old English Literature
What is Beowulf?
Also known as...
What is the Anglo-Norman Period?
Comes from the French word meaning _____.
What is "rebirth"?
Also known as _______.
*100 points for each name given
What is the Age of Reason/Age of Enlightenment
Neoclassical Period/ Age of Pope and Dryden?
He coined the word "welilatur"
Who is Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe?
The oldest form of composition
What is poetry?
Began in 1046, before the Norman Conquest of England. True or false?
What is false?
Also known as the _____ age.
What is "Golden"?
The printing press was invented in this era. True or false?
What is false?
Literature refers to any written work and is derived from the word _____, meaning ___________.
What is "literatura", writing formed with letters?
They were the first poets during this time
Who are Gleemen/Wandering Minstrels?
A literary piece that introduced iambic pentameter, the rhyming couplet, and other Italian conventions to English
What is Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?
This era was divided into three parts: _______, _______, and _________.
Bonus: +200 if you can give the other names of these parts.
What is The Beginning of Renaissance, The Flowering of Renaissance, and The Decline of Renaissance?
Bonus: What is the Elizabethan age and Jacobean age?
The literary style of this era
What is elegant and simple?
Who is St. Bede?
First English epic
What is The Scandinavian Tale?
Became the language of the aristocrats
Bonus question(+100): the language of the common man
What is Anglo-Norman/Anglo-French?
Bonus: What is Anglo-Saxon?
The Elizabethan and Jacobean ages are also known as ________.
What is the Age of Shakespeare?
John Dryden is a poet of this time. True or false?
What is true?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The 2 Value System
What is Paganism and Christianism?
Also considered "the dark ages" due to what events?
What are the crusades, the hundred years war, and the black death?
Some notable writers in this era
Who is Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser?
Inspiration of writers:
What is to provide pleasure, and express ideas to readers so everyone could understand in language that was accessible to all?