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1000 Years of British Literature
1000 Years of British Literature
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Some of the most famous authors and works of literature in the English language.
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A work of literature in which everything represents something else
literary allusion
literary epic
dramatic monologue
allegory
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Who wrote the Screwtape Letters?
CS Lewis
JK Rowling
Dan Brown
JRR Tolkein
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Wrote "Sonnet XIX" (When I consider how my light is spent)
William Shakespeare
John Milton
John Donne
Edmund Spenser
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Wrote "My Last Duchess"
TS Eliot
Lord Byron
Robert Browning
Sir John Suckling
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The two types of sonnets
Petrachan and rhymed couplet
Spenserian and Miltonian
rhymed couplet and literary epic
Spenserian and Petrarchan
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Wrote "Meditation 17" (No Man is an Island)
John Milton
John Donne
John Bunyan
10th Avenue North
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What turned Old English into Middle English?
The introduction of the Magna Carta
The invention of the printing press
The influence of the French people
The influence of the Scandinavian people
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Who wrote 'Journey of the Magi'?
Graham Greene
Hemingway
M.G. Nederlof
T.S. Eliot
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A type of literature often focused on the power of nature
folk epic
dramatic monologue
sonnet
Romantic
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Wrote "Sonnet 130" (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun)
John Donne
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
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Wrote
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
John Milton
John Wayne
John Donne
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Wrote "Speech Before Her Troops"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
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Wrote "She Walks in Beauty"
Lord Byron
William Shakespeare
John Milton
anonymous
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The time period following the Middle Ages with rapid growth in arts, science, and literature.
Dark Ages
Modernism
Renaissance
Romantic Period
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Wrote "Sonnet 43" (How do I love thee let me count the ways)
Robert Browning
John Milton
John Bunyan
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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Who wrote
A Modest Proposal?
Voltaire
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
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Wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Robert Browning
Dylan Thomas
TS Eliot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Wrote "Journey of the Magi"
John Milton
TS Eliot
Dylan Thomas
John Bunyan
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The poem considered to be the greatest literary epic in the English language is
Romeo and Juliet
Beowulf
Paradise Lost
The Pilgrim's Progress
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Who wrote "A Red, Red Rose"?
Robert the Bruce
Robert Conrad
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
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Wrote "Holy Sonnet 10" (Death be not proud)
William Shakespeare
John Donne
John Milton
Edmund Spenser
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Who wrote "In My Country"?
Jackie Kay
Lord Byron
Robert Browning
William Shakespeare
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Wrote
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Donne
TS Eliot
William Shakespeare
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How many lines does a sonnet have?
18
14
13
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Beowulf
is written in
French
Early Modern English
Old English
Middle English
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The Canterbury Tales
is written in
Middle English
Early Modern English
Old English
Frence
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Who wrote "To His Coy Mistress"?
Andrew Marvell
John Milton
John Donne
William Shakespeare
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An epic is a poem written in an elevated style that
generally includes supernatural elements
all of the above
often includes a quest
is about a hero
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Wrote "Sonnet 75" (One day I wrote her name upon the strand)
Edmund Spenser
Lord Byron
unknown
William Shakespeare
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Wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Lord Byron
Sir John Suckling
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Wrote "To the Virgins, To Make the Most of Time"
Robert Herrick
Sir Walter Raleigh
Andrew Marvell
Sir John Suckling
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Wrote
Beowulf
unknown
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
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Wrote "Paradise Lost"
John Bunyan
William Shakespeare
Sir Walter Raleigh
John Milton
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A poem that idealizes life in the country
haiku
dramatic monologue
pastoral
sonnet
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Wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Edmund Spenser
