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Let Us Test Your Knowledge: English Literature and Culture - literary periods
Let Us Test Your Knowledge: English Literature and Culture - literary periods
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Revision for English literature, focusing on literary periods
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1
What became less important in the Enlightenment period?
faith
knowledge
reason
natural science
2
Which literary genre dominated in England in the 19th century?
novel
play
short story
poetry
3
What is true of Emily Dickinson?
English
lived in the 20th century
one of the greatest American poets
wrote long poems
4
Which -ism is not a direction within the Modernist period?
Dadaism
Imperssionism
Classicism
Symbolism
5
What may be a theme in Oliver Twist (1838)?
travelling
how to get rich
the powerlessness of children
sentimental love
6
What do we call the group of American writers settling in Paris in the early 20th century?
The Lost Generation
The Stein Group
The Exiles
Imagists
7
Which idea is not central in the Romantic period?
nature
poet genius
emotions
social manners
8
In theatre, a monologue can also be called a
antagonist
soliloquy
resolution
dialogue
9
Who wrote "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough"?
Charles Dickens
Ezra Pound
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
10
What is often pinpointed as the start of the Romantic period in England?
publication of Pride and Prejudice (1813)
death of Robert Burns (1796)
the French Revolution (1789)
publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798)
11
Who wrote the words "No man is an island"?
John Donne
William Shakespeare
John Locke
Christopher Marlowe
12
What do we call an analogy between spiritual qualities and a physical object used in poetry?
metaphysical conceit
meditation
comparison
plot
13
Which word(s) does not describe the Victorian period?
imperialism
emotions
industrialism
social mobility
14
What is true of "A Modest Proposal" (1729)?
satirical
written by Daniel Defoe
written in the 19th century
Modernist
15
Which text may be said to belong to the Gothic tradition?
A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
16
The Renaissance was a revival of:
the Catholic church
Industrialism
Medieval ideas
classical ideas of Greece and Rome
17
In which period do we place the painting "Experiment with the Air Pump" (1768)?
Modernism
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Romanticism
18
What may be said to describe Modernist literature?
chronology
nature
experimentation
tradition
19
Which is not a part of American history in the 19th century?
the frontier
the Depression
the civil War
industrialization
20
Which of the below is a World War I poem?
The Echoing Green (William Blake)
Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
A Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams)
