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Anglo Saxon
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Age of Reason
Romantic Period
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What happened in 449?
What is Roman Empire fell in Britain.
100
What happened in 1066 to usher in the Middle Ages?
What is William the Conqueror took over England.
100
Number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14?
100
The new genre in this period.
What is the novel?
100
This woman wrote Frankenstein.
What is Mary Shelley?
200
Five key Anglo Saxon values.
What is bravery, strength, loyalty, boasting, and fame.
200
The church of the Middle Ages sold these for forgiveness of sins.
What are indulgences?
200
"Seize the day"
What is carpe diem?
200
Writing that seeks to expose human vice and folly.
What is satire?
200
This man was married to the woman who wrote Frankenstein.
What is Percy Shelley?
300
Who were the native Britons?
What are Celts.
300
The social system of the Middle Ages.
What is Feudalism?
300
Name of Shakespeare's theatre
What is the Globe?
300
This novel about a man lost at sea having adventures.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
300
This opium addict wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
What is Coleridge?
400
Who was the first "real" king of England?
Who was King Alfred?
400
Religious wars during the Middle Ages over the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
400
A strange metaphor between very different things.
What is a conceit?
400
The proposal in "A Modest Proposal?
What is eat the babies of the poor?
400
This early Romantic poet wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
What is William Blake?
500
What did the Roman Empire bring with it where ever it went?
What is roads, education, and eventually Christianity (any one gets credit.)
500
This event causes the collapse of feudalism and the end of the Middle Ages.
What is bubonic plague?
500
Poetry that idealizes the rural life or the life of shepherds
What is pastoral poetry?
500
God as a clockmaker is this kind of "ism"
What is deism?
500
A bad boy poet, who was a celebrity like some modern day celebs.
Who is Lord Byron?