Literature A6

Literature - A6
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Literature - A6
2022

Slide 1 - Slide

Put the four time periods in the correct order.
Old English period
Middle English period
Renaissance
Victorian Age

Slide 2 - Drag question

Old English period

Slide 3 - Slide

Which of the four works we studied is from the Old English period?
A
Oliver Twist
B
MacBeth
C
Beowulf
D
The Canterbury Tales

Slide 4 - Quiz

Which of the following poetic devices is NOT characteristic of Old English poetry?
A
caesura
B
formulas
C
kennings
D
end-rhyme

Slide 5 - Quiz

How where literary works transmitted in the Old English period?

Slide 6 - Open question

Middle English period

Slide 7 - Slide

Which important event can be perceived as the starting point of the Middle English period?

Slide 8 - Open question

Which of the following was NOT yet introduced in English poetry during the ME period?
A
end-rhyme
B
metre
C
alliteration
D
rhyming couplets

Slide 9 - Quiz

Which author from the Middle English period did we study?
A
Chaucer
B
Caedmon
C
Dickens
D
Milton

Slide 10 - Quiz

Into which two parts could the Canterbury Tales be divided?

Slide 11 - Open question

Which class did the Squire belong to?
A
nobility
B
clergy
C
commoners

Slide 12 - Quiz

Why did John and Alan go to Simkin in the Reeve's Tale?

Slide 13 - Open question

Explain the sentence "one who beguiles, beguiled himself shall be".

Slide 14 - Open question

Renaissance

Slide 15 - Slide

What language was spoken in the Renaissance period?
A
Old English
B
Middle English
C
Early Modern English
D
Modern English

Slide 16 - Quiz

OE / ME period
Renaissance
Memento Mori
Carpe Diem
the community
the individual
theocentric
anthropocentric

Slide 17 - Drag question

Indicate alliteration
in these lines.

Slide 18 - Open question

Indicate assonance
in these lines.

Slide 19 - Open question

Which type of sonnet has the following rhyme-scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A
Italian sonnet
B
Spenserian sonnet
C
Shakespearian sonnet

Slide 20 - Quiz

Into how many acts was a typical Renaissance play divided, following Aristotle's model?
A
2 acts
B
3 acts
C
4 acts
D
5 acts

Slide 21 - Quiz

Who spoke these words?

Slide 22 - Open question

What makes the play of Macbeth a typical 'tragedy'?

Slide 23 - Open question

Victorian Age

Slide 24 - Slide

Give one positive and one negative aspect of Victorian society.

Slide 25 - Open question

What was introduced at the end of the Victorian Age to improve the situation of the proletariat?

Slide 26 - Open question

Charles Dickens
Brontë sisters
Gothic influences
Autobiographical elements
Round characters
Caricatures
(Subtle) irony
Importance of setting

Slide 27 - Drag question

Give an example of an autobiographical element for both the Brontë sisters and Dickens.

Slide 28 - Open question

"It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop."

Why is this sentence characteristic for Dickens' work?

Slide 29 - Open question

Canterbury Tales
MacBeth
Oliver Twist
Beowulf
If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of the church-wardens ...
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue ...
For every trick, each clever move they make, the more that I can steal the more I'll take;
Oft Scyld Scefing // sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum,// meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas....

Slide 30 - Drag question

I am feeling confident about the literature test!
A
Not at all
B
A little
C
Quite
D
Yes!!!

Slide 31 - Quiz