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'?

A

a type of poem

B

the word for 'poem' in Old English

C

a break in a line

D

a hymn

An example of Caesura

Renaissance

The Canterbury Tales

Le Morte d'Arthur

Beowulf

Sir Thomas Malory

Anonymous

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Philip Sidney

Caroline/Interregnum/Restoration

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

King Charles II. After the death of his father, King Charles I, in 1649 and the subsequent establishment of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, Charles II went into exile. He returned to England in 1660 following the collapse of the Commonwealth and the end of the English Civil War. Charles II's restoration to the throne marked the return of the monarchy and the reestablishment of the Stuart dynasty in England.

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

A

epic

B

heroic couplet

C

metaphysical

D

elegiac

The Pilgrim's Progress

Mac Flecknoe

Paradise Lost

John Milton

John Dryden

John Bunyan

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Part 2:

• Enlightenment

• Neoclassicism

• Romanticism

• Gothic

Part 3:

• Victorianism

• Moderism

• Postmoderism