FRENCH LITERATURE Flashcards
What was considered as the Golden Age of French Literature as France had gained dominant power in Europe during the reign of King Louis XIV.
A. 16th Century
B. 17th Century
C. 18th Century
B. 17th Century
Encouraged by THEOPHILE GAUTIER, that means that art can exist without any purpose or agenda; purely formal and aesthetic qualities.
A. Art for Art’s sake
B. Mimesis
A. Art for Art’s sake
Father of Essay
A. Michel de Montaigne
B. Francis Bacon
A. Michel de Montaigne
Francis Bacon: if “ENGLISH essay”
Wrote The Social Contract where he asserted the idea of the collective sovereignty of the people. Popularized “Return to Nature”
A. Victor Hugo
B. Jean Jacques Rousseau
B. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Considered as the most important of the French Romantic writers
A. Guy de Maupassant
B. Victor Hugo
B. Victor Hugo
The most influential French novelist of the 19th century.
A. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
B. Gustave Flaubert
B. Gustave Flaubert
Wrote short stories that were characterized by irony and reality.
A. Guy de Maupassant
B. Gustave Flaubert
A. Guy de Maupassant
National Epic of France and first great work of French Literature, a medieval song depicting heroic deeds.
A. Beowulf
B. Song of Roland (Le Chanson de Roland)
B. Song of Roland (Le Chanson de Roland)
Considered as the Father of Italian Literature.
A. Dante Alighieri
B. William Shakespeare
A. Dante Alighieri
Greatest poem of the middle ages.
A. Divina Comedia (Divine Comedy)
B. Count of Monte Cristo
A. Divina Comedia (Divine Comedy)
Francesco Petrarch popularized the Petrarchan sonnet. Which of the following is its format?
A. ABBA ABBA - CDECDE/ CDCDCD/CDDCDD
B. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
A. ABBA ABBA - CDECDE/ CDCDCD/CDDCDD
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG-Shapesperean/ Elizabethan/ English Sonnet
Who wrote the Decameron, and what type of story is it?
A. Giovanni Boccaccio; Frame Story
B. Nicolo Machiavelli; Tragedy Story
A. Giovanni Boccaccio; Frame Story
A political philosopher writer who wrote the Prince
A. Nicolo Machiavelli
B. Aeneid
A. Nicolo Machiavelli
National Epic in Italy about a man in exile and discovered the “to-be” city of Rome
Aeneid by Virgil
