American-British Literature (History)

Question 1

Who is Venerable Bede?

Answer 1

considered holy/scholar in the Anglo Saxon Period

Question 2

What did Alfred the Great do?

Answer 2

🔺unified the monarchy

🔺education

Question 3

In which period did the english language grow?

Answer 3

Middle Ages

Question 4

Which period was the French Language introduced?

Answer 4

Middle Ages

Question 5

In what language was Middle Age literature written as?

Answer 5

Latin & French

Question 6

Which group controlled the Middle Ages in terms of literature?

Answer 6

Church

Question 7

In which time period was Geoffrey Chaucer known?

Answer 7

Middle Ages

Question 8

Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

Answer 8

“first major english poet”

Question 9

What did Geoffrey Chaucer write?

Answer 9

🔺Canterbury Tales (short stories)

🔺 Folk Ballads

Question 10

In what time period was the Pear Poets known?

Answer 10

Middle Ages

Question 11

What did the Pearl Poets write?

Answer 11

courtly adventures

Question 12

Who were the Pearl Poets?

Answer 12

unknown writers

Question 13

In which century was King Henry VII known?

Answer 13

Sixteenth Century

Question 14

In which time period was the Tudor Literature known for?

Answer 14

Sixteenth Century

Question 15

Who was the most influential leader in the Sixteenth Century?

Answer 15

Queen Elizabeth 👸🏼

Question 16

Which was the “golden time” for literature?

Answer 16

Sixteenth Century

Question 17

What happened in the time of Queen Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 17

🔺educated the people
🔺produced a lot of writers
🔺Government became more powerful than the Church

Question 18

What are the 3 Intellectual movements? (Sixteenth Century)

Answer 18

🔺Renaissance
🔺Humanism
🔺Reformation

Question 19

What happened in Renaissance?

Answer 19

Revival of interest in Latin & Greek

Question 20

What happened in Humanism?

Answer 20

🔺Center of Development

🔺man is responsible for his moral life

Question 21

What happened in Reformation?

Answer 21

changes in the Roman Catholic Church

Question 22

What is Courtly Literature?

Answer 22

story of royalty

Question 23

When was the Age of Discovery?

Answer 23

Sixteenth Century (Queen Elizabeth)

Question 24

Which was the Age of Reason?

Answer 24

Seventeenth Century

Question 25

In which period did King Charles rule?

Answer 25

Seventeenth Century

Question 26

When was the Age of Enlightenment?

Answer 26

Seventeenth Century

Question 27

When was neoclassicism introduced?

Answer 27

Seventeenth Century

Question 28

When was metaphor and allegories introduced?

Answer 28

Seventeenth Century

Question 29

Who ruled the Age of Classicism?

Answer 29

Queen Anne

Question 30

What happened in Age of Classicism?

Answer 30

🔺Didactic Literature

🔺writers/philosophers

Question 31

Which age did they value what is beautiful and true?

Answer 31

Age of Romanticism

Question 32

Who were the romantic writers?

Answer 32

Romans

Question 33

Who ruled the Victorian Age?

Answer 33

Queen Victoria

Question 34

In which time period was there women writers?

Answer 34

Victorian Age

Question 35

Who ruled the Twentieth Century?

Answer 35

Edward VII

Question 36

What happened in the Twentieth Century?

Answer 36

🔺dramatic changes
🔺world war 1
🔺variety of literature

Question 37

Which period had Alfred the Great as its leader?

Answer 37

Anglo Saxon Period