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English Literary Periods
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Who is the most famous author of The Renaissance (1500-1660)
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Burke
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What is the most famous epic poem from the Old English period?
The Canterbury Tales
Hamlet
The Raven
Beowulf
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What do we call the present literary period?
New Age
Millenialism
The Digital Age
Postmodernism
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Why was the Edwardian Period (1901-1910/1914) so short?
Because of the Boer War
Because the First World War broke out
Because the British Empire started to decline
Because Shakespeare objected to its existence
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What was the most important art form during the Elizabethan Period (part of the Renaissance)?
Rhetorics
Sculptures
Painting
Theater
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What are the characteristics of the Romantic Period (1798-1832)?
Gothic, female writers, individual freedom and divine nature
Imperialism, drama and ethnic diverse writers
Epic poems and moral tales
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Which literary periods does England and America have in common?
Modernism and New Age
Modernism and Postmodernism
Modernism and Realism
Neoclassical and Postmodernism
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Which literary period would most post-colonial writers belong to?
Modernism
Victorianism
Edwardian period
Post-modernism
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During which literary period did George Orwell write most of his famous literature?
Postmodernism
Edwardian period
Victorian Age
Modernism
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How could you characterize Modernism (1914/1919-1945)?
The Beatles
Search for meaning in a chaotic world
A period of moral tales and purity
A search for old values and religion
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Which author is known for developing the English language and adding 1500 words to it, still used today?
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
Shakespeare
Charles Dickes
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Which of the following is a key characteristic to Shakespeare?
Humanism
Rebirth of classical literature
The (Shakespearean/English) sonnet
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Other than the Victorian Age, which literary period is characteristic of Rudyard Kipling?
Old English
Renaissance
Edwardian Period
Postmodernism
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Which literary period began in England 20 years before it began in America?
The postmodern period
The Romantic period
The neoclassical period
The Old English Period
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Which literary period did Charles Dickens write in?
Victorian Era
Romantic period
Neoclassical
Elizabethan period
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What is the state of the British Empire during the Victorian Age (1832-1901)?
It has just begun to exist
It has long since gone
It is at its highest
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When was the Neoclassical/ Pre-Romantic period?
1536-1660
1660-1798
1750-1850
1800-1900
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What does Modernism and Postmodernism have in common?
Fragmentation
Stream of consciousness
The author is 'dead'
Pastiche
