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1
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what is the earliest era of literature and what years did it go from and to?

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ancient period
C.800-1BC

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3 influencers of the ancient period

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aristotle
homer
socrates
sophocles
plato
virgil

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3
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3 themes of ancient period literature

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morality
fate
mythology

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what era occurred during AD 500-1500?

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medieval period

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3 themes from medieval period

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chivalry
religion
love

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3 influencers of medieval literature

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chaucer
malory
dante

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7
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what years was medieval period from and to?

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AD 500-1500

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8
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what comes after the medieval period?

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the renaissance period

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9
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what years was the renaissance period?

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1500-1670

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3 themes from renaissance

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drama
kingship
conflict

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what are the 2 periods that happened during the renaissance era?

years from and to

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elizabethan 1558-1603
Jacobean 1603-1625

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3 influencers from renaissance era

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machiavelli
spenser
shakespeare
marlowe
milton

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13
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what happera happened before the romantic period?

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the enlightenment

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13
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what year was the enlightenment to and from?

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1670-1837

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3 themes of enlightenment

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science
reason
criticism

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3 influencers of enlightenment

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rousseau
voltaire
kant
locke
hobbes

14
Q

what happened from 1790-1870?

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the romantic period

15
Q

what dates were the romantic period from and to?

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1790-1870

16
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3 themes of romantic literature

A

nature
beauty
freedom

17
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3 influencers from romantic era

A

walpole
mary shelley
bronte sisters

18
Q

what was born during the romantic period

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gothic literature

19
Q

what happened between the romantic period and modernism?

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victorian period

20
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what years was the victorian period from and to

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1837-1901

21
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3 themes in victorian literature

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society
power
urbanisation

22
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3 influencers of victorian literature

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dickens
hardy
stevenson
conan doyle
browning
Lord tennyson

23
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what came after victorian period?

A

modernism

24
Q

what years did modernism take place?

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1901-1949

25
Q

3 themes of modernism

A

change
utopia
perfection

26
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3 influencers of modernism

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marx
freud
jung
woolf
pound
joyce
TS elliot

27
Q

what is the era we are currently in?

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postmodernism

28
Q

when did postmodernism start?

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1949

29
Q

3 themes in postmodernism

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irony
dystopia
subversion

30
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3 influencers of postmodernism

A

lyotard
de beauvoir
foucault
derrida
plath
beckett
orwell

31
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order the 8 eras oldest to newest

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ancient period
medieval period
renaissance
enlightenment
romantic
victorian
modernism
post modernismengl

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