Q2 M1 2nd Test about Close Analysis and Critical Interpretation of Literary Texts from the World Flashcards
– is the golden age & golden
age of drama of English Literature
Elizabeth Literature (1558- 1603)
Known as the “Bard of Avon”
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s best plays include
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and the merchant of Venice.
He wrote 154 sonnets, many of which are best loved and the most widely-read poems in the
English Literature.
William Shakespeare
the golden age of lyric poetry
The Romantic Period
The Romantic Period
“Songs of Innocence and of Experience” by
William Blake
The Romantic Period
“Lyrical Ballads” by
William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Romantic Period
“The Eve of St. Agnes” and “Other Poems” by
John Keats
The Romantic Period
“Don Juan” by
Lord Byron
The Romantic Period
“Ode to the West Wind” by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
– is the period when the rise of novel was noticed.
The Victorian Period (1837 – 1900)
The Victorian Period
Charles
Dickens, considered to be the?
greatest English novelist of the 19th century
The Victorian Period
He wrote the “Great
Expectations”. This novel was published as a serial in a weekly periodical from December 1860
to August 1861.
Charles
Dickens
The Victorian Period
Tennyson’s
_________ is a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
“In Memoriam A.H.H.”
The Victorian Period
Browning, also known for his dramatic
monologues, wrote the famous ___________. In a dramatic monologue, the poet addresses
an audience through an assumed voice.
“My Last Duchess”
The Victorian Period
Oscar Wilde is the dramatist of the period. He wrote the masterpiece _____________
“The Importance of Being
Earnest”.
Twentieth Century (1900 – 2000)
William Butler Yeats wrote ________, ____________ and __________
“The Tower”
“The Winding Stair”
“New Poems”
Twentieth Century
Eliot’s masterpieces are __________ and “The Waste Land”
“The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufock”
“The Waste Land”
Virginia Woolf in her story ___________ and James Joyce in his work ____________ use stream
of consciousness, a literary technique in which the flow of thoughts of a character is described in
words.
“Mrs. Dalloway”
“Ulysses”
Latin Literature
the greatest Roman orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Latin Literature
The first
part of the Golden age of Latin Literature (70 BC – AD 18) is named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, the
____________ period (70-43 AD).
Ciceronian
Latin Literature
One of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s well-known speeches
is _________.
Pro Cluentio
Latin Literature
He is the greatest Roman poet
Virgil (70 BCE-19 BCE)
was known for ______ an epic poem
“Aenid”
He was known for “Oedipus the
King” which marks the highest level of achievement of Greek drama.
Sophocles (496 BC – 406 BC) was a tragic playwright.
Greek Literature
HOMER is known for the __________. These epics are about the heroic
achievements of A_________ and O_________, respectively.
“The Iliad and The Odyssey”
