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ENGLISH LITERATURE (PERIODS, AUTHORS, & WORKS
ENGLISH LITERATURE (PERIODS, AUTHORS, & WORKS
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Who is the famous author in VICTORIAN AGE who wrote SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE & SONNET 43- feeling of love and devotion
John Smith
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oscar Wilde
Robert Browning
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The greatest anglo-saxon scholar who wrote the ecclesiastical history of english people.
King alfred the great
Venerable Bede
Cynewolf
Caedmon
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In this period it became increasingly difficult to find order or pattern in life people focuses on "machine age"
20th century
18th century
17th century
19th century
4
In the 18th century he is also known as the greatest writer in the English language and the Bard of Avon.
William Browning
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
William Defoe
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It is a period in english literature that focuses on human potential and achievements in the celebration of language.
18th Century
Renaissance
Romantic Movement
17th Century
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What story of william shakespeare is the TRAGEDY OF YOUNG LOVE?
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
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In the renaissance period who is the author of the SONG TO CELIA - "drink to me with thine eyes"
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spencer
Ben Johnson
Francis Bacon
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This period is an opposition against ROMANTICISM. Shifting from the abstract to addressing social issues.
Victorian age
20th century
Dark age
Renaissance period
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Author in anglo-saxon and uncleared cowherd humirausly acquired the gift of poetic song
Caedmon
King Alfred The Great
Cynewolf
Venerable Bede
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Who is a famous author who wrote "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" he is also known to often poke fun at victorian society.
Thomas Jefferson
Stephen Carne
Robert Browning
Oscar Wilde
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This period believed in the importance of the 3 I's INDIVIDUAL IMAGINATION AND INTUITION.
Victorian age
20th century
Romantic movement
18th century
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What story of William Shakespeare is the TRAGEDY OF AMBITION?
King Lear
Romeo and juliet
Macbeth
Othello
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What story of William Shakespeare is the TRAGEDY OF JEALOUSY?
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
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He is a famous author in RENAISSANCE PERIOD who is known as the FATHER OF ENGLISH TRAGEDY
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
Edmund Spencer
William Shakespeare
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What story of william shakespeare is the TRAGEDY OF PARENTAL LOVE?
Macbeth
King Lear
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
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He is the famous LEXICOGRAPHER and the father of modern english dictionary in 18th Century
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
Elizabeth Browning
Samuel Taylor
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Who is the author of DR FAUSTUS - he sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power & knowledge.
Edmund Spencer
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Johnson
Francis Bacon
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An author from an old english period which signed his poems in a kind of cipher or anagram ancient figures called runes.
Venerable Bede
Cynewolf
King Alfred The Great
Caedmon
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This period is characterized by SENSES, RURAL AND NATURAL, SUBJECTIVE POETRY, INTEREST IN THE MYSTERIOUS.
Romantic movement
Renaissance
Victorian age
Dark ages
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Who is the famous author IN VICTORIAN AGE which is known for his dramatic monologue in the novel MY LAST DUCHESS?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oscar Wilde
Robert Browning
John Smith
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It is a period in english literature that emerged as the dominant language work centered on religion.
18th Century
Middle English Period
Renaissance
17th Century
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It is the oldest surviving germanic epic in the longest old english poem.
Beowulf
Dream of the Rood
The Faerrie Quenne
Everyman
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This period is also called the golden age of british novels that focuses on societal problems.
Dark ages
Renaissance period
Victorian age
Romantic movement
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Who wrote the story TO LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS?
Daniel Defoe
John Donne
Richard Lovelace
Samuel Johnson
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In the RENAISSANCE period Who is the author of the FAERIE QUEENE - one of the longest poems in the english language.
Francis Bacon
Edmund Spencer
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
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What story of William Shakespeare is the TRAGEDY OF REVENGE?
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
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In the 18th century he introduced the Spenserian stanza (ABAB BCBC C or ABAB BCBC CDCD EE)
Edmund Spencer
Samuel Taylor
Richard Lovelace
Oscar Wilde
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In the Renaissance Period who is the famous AUTHOR who wrote the "HOLY SONNETS" collection of 19 deeply spiritual poems.
Daniel Defoe
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Johnson
John Donne
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The King of Wassex who wrote in his native tongue and encouraged scholarly translation from latin into old english.
King Alfred The Great
Cynewolf
Caedmon
Venerable Bede
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How many lines and syllables in a SONNET?
14 lines with 10 syllables
12 lines with 10 syllables
10 lines with 8 syllables
13 lines with 14 syllables
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What kind of religious dramas when we say VALUES AND VIRTUES are the main characters.
Metrical plays
Miracle plays
Mystery plays
Morality plays
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Who is the famous author who wrote the poem THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER in the romantic movement period.
John Donne
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Richard Lovelace
Oscar Wilde
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In the 18th century he is a famous author in the renaissance period who is also known as the FATHER OF ENGLISH COMEDY.
Francis Bacon
Ben Jonson
Edmund Spencer
Christopher Marlowe
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What is Caedmon's known surviving work which is basis of our lord's prayer
The Fate of the Apostles
Caedmon's hymn
Juliana
Ecclesiastical History
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In the 17th century he was one of the leading figures of the metaphysical poetry movements or serious poetry.
Richard Lovelace
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Donne
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What play in religious dramas when we say CHRIST is the main character
Morality plays
Mythical plays
Miracle plays
Mystery plays
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In this century the authors model the styles of greek and romans writers also called Neoclassicism.
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
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This period has a mnemonics "TREP" TRANSITION, REVOLUTION EXPLORATION, PROSE
20th Century
18th Century
17th Century
Middle English Period
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It is a notable work in the middle english period that talks about every man's facing death.
Samson
Song to Celia
Everyman
Dr Faustus
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It is a story that uses a dream vision to narrate the death and resurrection of christ; pagan storytelling
The Faerie Queene
Beowulf
Dream of the Rood
Elene
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In this period fiction no longer followed a forward moving narrative that brought this content and disillusionment.
Medieval
Renaissance
After The World Wars
Victorian
42
What is the long rumbling love story presenting KNIGHTLY adventures and courtly love?
Morality plays
Metrical plays
Miracle plays
Mystery plays
43
"A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE"
Samuel Johnson
Robert Browning
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who is the famous author who launched the ROMANTIC AGE his famous poem is DAFFODILS?
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Browning
Samuel Taylor colerieyge
William Wordsworth
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In the 17th century what kind of poetry if the focus is more on LOVE, LOYALTY, AND CARPE DIEM (SEIZE THE DAY).
Harmonic poetry
Love poetry
Heroic poetry
Cavalier poetry
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Who is the author of the English Novel "Robin Crusoe"- the story of castaway survival on a deserted island.
Robert Browning
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Frost
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This period is the age of reason or enlightenment to emphasize reason over superstition and signs over blind faith.
17th century
20th century
18th century
19th century
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In the religious dramas what play if we say SAINTS are the main characters
Morality plays
Mystery plays
Metrical plays
Miracle plays
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What period in English Literature when we talk about poems are handed down from generation through Oral Tradition
Old english period or anglo-saxon period
Medieval period
18th century
Renaissance period
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In the 18th century he is the founder of modern scientific methods.
William Wordsworth
Samuel Johnson
Francis Bacon
Ben Jonson