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The Ancient World
Literary Terminology
The Medieval Era
Literary Pieces
The Early Modern Period
100
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism
100
This term means "type" or classification
What is genre?
100
This caused a major population shift from the cities.
What is the black plague?
100
Believed to have been written by Moses.
What is Genesis?
100
This invention revolutionized education and learning during this period.
What is the printing press?
200
A literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.
What is a tragic hero?
200
A poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
200
Economic class missing from medieval society.
What is the middle class?
200
This character was created as a foil to Gilgamesh.
Who is Enkidu?
200
Hamlet is classified as this.
What is a tragedy?
300
Muse invoked by Homer in The Iliad.
What is anger?
300
Means " in the middle of."
What is en medias res?
300
A long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero.
What is an epic?
300
A comprehensive collection of William Shakespeare's works.
What is First Folio?
300
After the death of his father, Hamlet is fascinated with this idea.
What is death?
400
Old Testament books are considered this.
What is a myth?
400
A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is a foil?
400
A comparison between two unlike things.
What is a simile?
400
The Roman take on the Trojan War.
What is the Aeneid?
400
This character was a foil to Hamlet?
Who is Laertes?
500
Roman king of the gods.
Who is Jupiter?
500
The following lines demonstrate this literary term: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
What is iambic pentameter?
500
The church and this entity replaced the Roman Empire at the beginning of this period.
What is feudalism?
500
Involved consecutive nights of story-telling.
What is 1001 Nights?
500
A schism from the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?