Literary history - part 1

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Literary History

Part 1

Terminology

How well do you know the terminology that belongs to literary history?

Medieval Period

Name two characteristics of the literature in the Medieval Period.

In which language was Caedmon's Hymn written?

What is a 'caesura'?

1. a type of poem
2. the word for 'poem' in Old English
3. a break in a line
4. a hymn

The Canterbury Tales

Le Morte d'Arthur

Beowulf

Sir Thomas Malory

Anonymous

Geoffrey Chaucer

Renaissance

Which instrument that was founded in the Renaissance was so important to literature?

What does 'renaissance' mean?

Poet

major thinker

playwright

William Shakespeare

John Donne

Philp Sidney

Caroline/Interregnum/Restoration

Who was restored to the English throne during the Restoration Period?

What is the name for a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentametre?

1. epic
2. heroic couplet
3. metaphysical
4. elegiac

The Pilgrim's Progress

Mac Flecknoe

Paradise Lost

John Milton

John Dryden

John Bunyan

Part 2:

• Enlightenment
• Neoclassicism
• Romaticism
• Gothic

Part 3:

• Victorianism
• Moderism
• Postmoderism