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Anglo Saxons
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Age of Reason
Romantic
100
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes ran the Romans out of England in this year.
What is 449?
100
The Middle Ages begin in this year.
What is 1066?
100
The name of Shakespeare's theatre.
What is The Globe?
100
Satirical novel written by Jonathan Swift about a man lost at sea who has numerous adventures.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
100
Wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
Who is William Blake?
200
One of the values of Anglo Saxon culture.
What is strength, bravery, loyalty, boasting, fame.
200
The person who invaded England.
Who is William the Conqueror?
200
The meaning of the Latin term Carpe Diem.
What is "seize the day"?
200
The idea to fight poverty offered in Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
What is eat the babies?
200
A Romantic poet married to Frankenstein's author.
Who is Percy Shelley?
300
The bar-type place where the warriors gathered to tell tales.
What is the mead hall.
300
The church got wealthy by selling these passes for sins.
What are indulgences?
300
Shakespeare's sonnets included four of these three line stanzas.
What is a quatrain?
300
God as a clock-maker.
What is deism?
300
This Romantic Poet died at 24.
Who is John Keats?
400
The storyteller in Anglo Saxon society.
What is the scop.
400
Where Becket was murdered by King Henry's knights.
What is Canterbury Cathedral?
400
A strange metaphor between very different things.
What is a conceit?
400
Writing that seeks to expose human vice and folly in order to bring about change.
What is satire?
400
This Romantic poet is considered the bad boy type.
Who is Lord Byron?
500
Another name for Anglo Saxon times.
What is the Dark Ages?
500
The social style of the Middle Ages. Starts with an "F".
What is Feudalism.
500
These people took over England and ended the Renaissance...and closed the theatres.
Who are the Puritans?
500
A humorous work that mimics the style of another work. Starts with a "P".
What is a parody?
500
This opium addict wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Who is Coleridge?