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1_ World Lit Era Flashcards

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It is the Golden Age of Literature and Arts

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The Classical Period

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-It referred to as The Age of Reason and also known as neoclassical period

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The Enlightenment Period

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It is the Great Age for Novels and it emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and Individualism

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The Romantic Period

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In what period does the First printing press was invented?

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The Rennaisance aperiod

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Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period or Old English Period.

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The Medieval Period

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Greek word for literature

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Littera

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Littera means

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Letter

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Knowledge of books

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Literature

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refer to the sum total of the world’s national literatures

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world literature

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Classical Period (C.E )

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1200 BCE – 455 CE)

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Medieval Period (C.E)

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(455 CE – 1485 CE)

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Renaissance Period (C.E)

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(1485-1660 CE)

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A golden age for literature and arts

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The Classical Period (1200 BCE – 455 CE)

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The Classical Period (1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Significant works

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The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Works and Days by Hesiod
Theogony by Hesiod

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Greek writer and philosopher during this period:
The Classical Period (1200 BCE – 455 CE)

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Gorgias
Aesop
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Euripides

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Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period

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The medieval Period (455 CE – 1485 CE)

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The medieval Period (455 CE – 1485 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this period:

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The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
The Dark Ages and the Bards
The Dream of the Holy Rood

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The medieval Period (455 CE – 1485 CE)
Famous Author during this period:

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas Aquinas
Martin Luther
Caedmon

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The medieval Period (455 CE – 1485 CE)
Significant Literary Genres

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Elegy
Religious Liturgy
Narrative Romance

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It is considered to be the division between the Middle age and Modern era.

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The Renaissance Period (1485-1660 CE)

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The Renaissance Period (1485-1660 CE)

Some Significant Literary work in this period:

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Romeo and Juliet
When I was Fair and Young
Utopia
The faerie Queen

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The Renaissance Period (1485-1660 CE)
Famous Author during this period:

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William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
Queen Elizabeth I
Edmund Spencer

23
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later PERIOD OF LITERATURE

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The Enlightenment Period (1660 BCE – 1790)
The Romantic Period (1790 – 1830)
The Victorian Period (1832 – 1901)
The Modern Period (1914 – 1945)
The Post-Modern Period (1945 onward)

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The Enlightenment Period (YEAR)_____

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(1660 – 1790)

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Referred to as the Age of Reason. Era of Logic.

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The Enlightenment Period (1660 – 1790)

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The Enlightenment Period (1660 – 1790)
Some Significant Literary work in this period:

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All for love
The Rake of the Lock
Rights of Man
Elegy written in a Churchyard

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The Enlightenment Period (1660 – 1790)
Famous Author during this period:

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John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Thomas Paine
Thomas Gray

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The Enlightenment Period (1660 – 1790)
Popular Types of literature during this period:

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Essay
Melodrama
Letters
Fables

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The romantic Period (YEAR)______

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(1790 – 1830)

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Great Age for the Novel

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The romantic Period (1790 – 1830

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Emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and Individualism.

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The romantic Period (1790 – 1830)

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The romantic Period (1790 – 1830)

Some Significant Literary work in this period:

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I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud
Kubla Khan
Song of Innocence and of Experience
Mathilda

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Famous Author during this period:

The romantic Period (1790 – 1830)

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William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
Mary Shelley

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The victorian Period (YEAR)

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(1832 – 1901)

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The Reign of Queen Victoria.

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The victorian Period (1832 – 1901)

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The literature of this Era expressed the fusion of pure romance to gross realism.

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The victorian Period (1832 – 1901)

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Some Significant Literary work in this period:
The victorian Period (1832 – 1901)

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The Pickwick Papers
How do I love Thee
Ulysses

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Famous Author during this period:
The victorian Period (1832 – 1901)

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Charles Dicken
Elizabeth Browning
Alfred Lord Tennison

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The modern Period ( YEAR)

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1914 – 1945)

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Characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.

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The modern Period (1914 – 1945)

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Some Significant Literary work in this period:
The modern Period (1914 – 1945)

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The Road Not Taken
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Insensibility

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Famous Author during this period:
The modern Period (1914 – 1945)

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Robert Frost
Dylan Thomas
Wilfred Owen

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The Postmodern Period (YEAR)

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(1945 – Onward)

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Characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator.

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The Postmodern Period (1945 – Onward)

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Some Significant Literary work in this period:
The Postmodern Period (1945 – Onward)

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Infinite Jest
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Waiting for Godot

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Famous Author during this period:
The Postmodern Period (1945 – Onward)

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David Foster Wallace
T.S Eliot
Samuel Beckett

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