The age of reason
He is considered the “father of the English novel” and wrote about a man on a desert island.
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
154
He created the historical novel genre
Sir Walter Scott
The narrative techniques used by Virginia Woolf to show internal thoughts?
Stream of consciousness
The feature where a book openly discusses its own creation
Metafiction
This satirist wrote about Lilliputians to mock European politics.
Jonathan Swift
What is the rhyme Scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The brooding, dark protagonist of Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
Which author focused blood consciousness and instincts?
D.H. Lawrence
Who wrote Slaughterhouse Five using black humour?
Kurt Vonnegut
What is the main difference between Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver?
Cruiser is an optimist/worker and Gulliver/Swift is skeptic/critic
These period of his work (1601-1608) is known for plays like Hamlet and Macbeth
The tragic period
Which Victorian writer was the voice of the poor and wrote Oliver Twist?
Charles Dickens
Jame Joyce masterpiece that parallels Homer’s Odyssey
Ulysses
This writer provided three different endings for the French Lieutenant’s woman
John Fowles
In Swift’s book Who were the “Yahoos”?
irrational filthy humans
To whom are the first 126 sonnets addressed?
The Fair Youth
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is famously subtitled a novel without a …
Hero
What is an epiphany in Joyce’s works?
A sudden moment of spiritual insight
What is black humour in Literature?
Treating serious/horrific subjects with irony and jokes
Name three main features of Enlightenment literature
reason, progress, teaching
Why is the Tempest called his farewell to the stage?
Prospero given up magic symbolizes Shakespeare leaving theatre
What does the term critical realism mean?
Depicting society as it is while criticising its flaws
Name Virginia Woolf’s concept of life described in modern fiction
The Luminous Halo
define the concept of rememory in Tori Morrison’s beloved
The collective memory of trauma/slavery