This period is still going on and started in the late 20th century.
What is Post-Modernism?
100
A chaotic world is loosing all its traditions. More and more technology is taking over.
What are some of the characteristics of the Modern society?
100
Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney.
What are the names of two poets from the Renaissance? They wrote sonnets.
100
Iambic pentameter
What is one of the characteristics of Renaissance writing? (Sonnet)
100
Rebellion, nature, emotions and expanding the self.
What are some of the themes of Romanticism?
200
This literary period lasted from early 16th century to early 17th century and had a socalled Elizabethan Period named after Queed Elizabeth I (1533-1603).
What is Renaissance?
200
Depends on the individual perspective. Each individual has its own version of reality.
What are some of the characteristics of the Post-Modern society?
200
Raymond Carver, Bret Easton Ellis and Simon Armitage.
What are the names of three writers from the post-modern period?
200
Complicated metaphors which show that the only existing meaning is that there is no meaning.
What is one of the characteristics of Modern writing?
200
Love, courting and language itself.
What are some of the themes of Renaissance?
300
This period lasted from early to mid 20th century and took place in a time of both crisis and development.
What is Modernism?
300
Geocentrically (the Earth, not the Sun, at the centre) and theocentrically ordered universe (God at the top of everything, the King/Queen just beneath Him).
What are some of the characteristics of the Elizabethan/Renaissance society?
300
Jane Austen.
What is the name of a world-famous female author from the romantic period?
300
Nature as a symbol of feelings and emotions.
What is one of the characteristics of Romantic writing?
300
Playfullness and black humour: Positive outlook on a fragmented life and world.
What are some of the themes of Post-Modernism?
400
The name of this period, which lasted from 1798-1832, was in the wake of the French Revolution in 1789.
What is Romanticism?
400
Technological progress. Remaining conservative values against values of freedom and feelings.
What are some of the characteristics of the Romantic society?
400
Katherine Mansfield.
What is the name of a female writer who often wrote short stories in the modern period?
400
Intertextuality (when an element i a text refers directly to another text).
What is one of the characteristics of Post-Modern writing?
400
Loss of traditions. Existential crisis and a search for meaning that is not there: A negative outlook on a fragmented life and world.