EL Final Review - Facts Only

What is England’s greatest allegory?

Who was the greatest prose writer of the age?

Who translated the New Testament into English?

Who believed Christians should live a pure and holy life?

Who produced England’s greatest epic?

Who was the greatest poet of the time and the second greatest writer in English literature?

What language was used for literature during the Medieval Period?

Who were interested in things of the mind, the soul, and eternity?

What is the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem and the oldest surviving epic of any Germanic people?

Which was NOT a literary art form during the Elizabethan Period?

Who were lyricists of a lighter vein who wrote love songs to or about women?

Which is a main foot of poetry?

Which is NOT a traditional quality of an epic?

What is considered England’s greatest epic?

Which of the following is a characteristic of Anglo-Saxon literature?

When did English morality reach its lowest point?

What was the first printed English translation of the Bible?

Who was the first Anglo-Saxon poet whose name we know?

What genres were popular in the Medieval Period?

Who was the most prominent prose satirist of the Restoration?

What was the first literature of the Anglo-Saxons?

What influenced Restoration writers?

What does 'Utopia' mean?

What is the belief in an impersonal God who left the world to run by natural laws?

What Bible was used by Shakespeare, Cromwell, Milton, Bunyan, and the American Pilgrims?

What two time periods influenced the Elizabethan Period?

Who brought the first printing press to England?