Literature A6

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Literature - A6

2022

Put the four time periods in the correct order.

Old English period

Middle English period

Renaissance

Victorian Age

Old English period

Which of the four works we studied is from the Old English period?

1. Oliver Twist
2. MacBeth
3. Beowulf
4. The Canterbury Tales

Which of the following poetic devices is NOT characteristic of Old English poetry?

1. caesura
2. formulas
3. kennings
4. end-rhyme

How where literary works transmitted in the Old English period?

Middle English period

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

Which of the following was NOT yet introduced in English poetry during the ME period?

1. end-rhyme
2. metre
3. alliteration
4. rhyming couplets

Which author from the Middle English period did we study?

1. Chaucer
2. Caedmon
3. Dickens
4. Milton

Into which two parts could the Canterbury Tales be divided?

Which class did the Squire belong to?

1. nobility
2. clergy
3. commoners

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

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

Renaissance

What language was spoken in the Renaissance period?

1. Old English
2. Middle English
3. Early Modern English
4. Modern English

OE / ME period

Renaissance

Memento Mori

Carpe Diem

the community

the individual

theocentric

anthropocentric

Indicate alliteration
in these lines.

Indicate assonance
in these lines.

Which type of sonnet has the following rhyme-scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

1. Italian sonnet
2. Spenserian sonnet
3. Shakespearian sonnet

Into how many acts was a typical Renaissance play divided, following Aristotle's model?

1. 2 acts
2. 3 acts
3. 4 acts
4. 5 acts

Who spoke these words?

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

Victorian Age

Give one positive and one negative aspect of Victorian society.

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

Charles Dickens

Brontë sisters

Gothic influences

Autobiographical elements

Round characters

Caricatures

(Subtle) irony

Importance of setting

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

"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?

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....

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