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Duplicate of English Literature and Culture - literary periods
Duplicate of English Literature and Culture - literary periods
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Revision for English literature, focusing on literary periods
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What are the 5 MAJOR literary periods in British history?
Humanism, Colonialism, Imperialism, Renaissance, Criticism
Middle Ages, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, Early Modern
Greek & Roman, Medieval, Middle Ages, 1700s
Modern, Post Modern, Early Modern, New Age, Expressionism
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What do we call the group of American writers settling in Paris in the early 20th century?
The Lost Generation
The Exiles
Imagists
The Stein Group
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What may be a theme in Wuthering Heights?
society and class
how to get rich
race
travelling
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The Romantic Period crosses over into...
Post Modern Period
Renaissance
Medieval Times
Victorian Era
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Which idea is not central in the Romantic period?
nature
social manners
poet genius
emotions
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Which literary genre dominated in England in the 19th century?
poetry
novel
play
short story
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The Renaissance was a revival of:
Industrialism
Medieval ideas
classical ideas of Greece and Rome
the Catholic church
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What time period does Geoffrey Chaucer belong to?
Greek Period
Middle Ages
Victorian Era
The Renaissance
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Which text may be said to belong to the Gothic tradition?
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
The Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
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What became less important in the Enlightenment period?
reason
knowledge
faith
natural science
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Which -ism is not a direction within the Modernist period?
Impressionism
Dadaism
Symbolism
Classicism
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What is often pinpointed as the start of the Romantic period in England?
publication of Pride and Prejudice (1813)
publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798)
death of Robert Burns (1796)
the French Revolution (1789)
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Which is not a part of American history in the 19th century?
the Depression
the frontier
industrialization
the civil War
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Which of the below is a World War I poem?
Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
The Echoing Green (William Blake)
A Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams)
A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
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What literary period came immediately after the Renaissance?
Middle Ages
Modernism
Romantic Period
Victorian Era
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What may be said to describe Modernist literature?
experimentation
chronology
tradition
nature
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Which word(s) does not describe the Victorian period?
social mobility
industrialism
emotions
imperialism
18
What is true of Emily Dickinson?
wrote long poems
lived in the 20th century
one of the greatest American poets
English
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In theatre, a monologue can also be called a
soliloquy
resolution
dialogue
antagonist
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Who wrote "Looking as if she were alive. I call/That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands"
John Donne
Robert Browning
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
