Literary history - part 1

Literary History
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This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Literary History

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Part 1

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

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Medieval Period

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Name two characteristics of the literature in the Medieval Period.

Slide 5 - Open question

In which language was Caedmon's Hymn written?

Slide 6 - Mind map

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

Slide 7 - Quiz

The Canterbury Tales
Le Morte d'Arthur
Beowulf
Sir Thomas Malory
Anonymous
Geoffrey Chaucer

Slide 8 - Drag question

Renaissance

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

Slide 10 - Mind map

What does 'renaissance' mean?

Slide 11 - Open question

Poet
major thinker
playwright
William Shakespeare
John Donne
Philp Sidney

Slide 12 - Drag question

Caroline/Interregnum/Restoration

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

Slide 14 - Mind map

What is the name for a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentametre?
A
epic
B
heroic couplet
C
metaphysical
D
elegiac

Slide 15 - Quiz

The Pilgrim's Progress
Mac Flecknoe
Paradise Lost
John Milton
John Dryden
John Bunyan

Slide 16 - Drag question

Part 2:

  • Enlightenment
  • Neoclassicism
  • Romaticism
Part 3:

  • Victorianism
  • Moderism
  • Postmoderism

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