“The Canterbury Tales” is from what British time period?
Medieval
100
Who was the author that wrote Canterbury Tales?
(Medieval)
Geoffrey Chaucer
100
Writers in this time period emphasized emotion over reason, nature over industry, and the individual over society
Romanticism
100
How were epic poems passed down?
They were memorized and performed from generation to generation, instead of being written down.
100
Who was the author who wrote “Preludes”, ”The Hollow Men”, “The Naming of Cats”
T.S Eliot
200
The Shakespearean drama became popular during what time period?
The Elizabethan Era (Renaissance)
200
In the Diary of Samuel Pepys, who was the author?
(Restoration)
Samuel Pepys
200
In this time period, writings ignored grim reality, focusing instead on more “poetic subjects” like ancient legends, exotic foreign lands, and romantic love
Victorian
200
This type of literature believes that Marriage is no real excuse for not loving, he who is jealous cannot love, and when made public, love rarely endures.
Medieval literature.
200
This time period focused on reflecting the society and ideals of their time, and drew from many sources like historical and contemporary.
Medieval
300
Female writers first started to get noticed in what time period?
The Restoration Period
300
Which Victorian wrote about Margaret growing old and grieving?
(Victorian)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
300
This time period focused on stream of consciousness (technique in which the reader is inside the character’s mind, hearing his or her thoughts just as they occur) writing.
Modern
300
During this period was called the “Great vowel shift”, the pronunciation of most english long vowels changed, and the final e in words like take was no longer pronounced. Letters like k and e were not pronounced knave
Renaissance literature.
300
During the Restoration many women were invited to leave their silk stockings at home and come casually dressed in everyday blue worsted stockings. The women who frequented salons -intellectual women in general- became known as____________.
Bluestockings.
400
The Industrial Revolution occurred in what time period?
The Romantic Period
400
Christopher Marlowe was the author of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, who was the author that responded with the “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”?
(Renaissance)
Sir Walter Raleigh
400
Authors during this time wrote pieces of literature that reflected their own concerns and experiences - working hard, doing right, gaining respectability.
Restoration
400
During this period, fiction changed from something that was widely considered to be simply light entertainment to become serious literature.
Romanticism
400
Who was the author of Beowulf?
There was an author but no one knows who it was but
*extra 100 points* the publishers guess the author lived from middle of the seventh century A.D. to the end of the tenth century.
500
Darwin's Theory of evolution was published during what time period?
The Victorian Time Period
500
In the French Revolution England found their finest poets who were they? There is three
(Romanticism)
William Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
William Blake.
500
This period emphasized praising the deeds of heroic warriors. It reflected the reality of life at this time, which was often brutal. What is this time period called?
Anglo-Saxon
500
The time period tended to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end; virtue would be rewarded and wrongdoers are suitably punished.
Victorian era
500
How would you describe the Anglo-Saxon time period in terms of society?