Writers And Their Ages

Question 1

Homeric Age

Answer 1

Illiad and the Odyssey

Question 2

Writers of Classical Greek Period

Answer 2

Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides

Question 3

Individual City States and early democracy

Answer 3

Classical Greek period

Question 4

Patristic Period

Answer 4

Saint Jerome compiled the first Bible.

Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Ambrose

Question 5

Dark Ages

Answer 5

The old English or Anglo Saxon Period

Question 6

Why are dark ages called the dark ages, mofo?

Answer 6

Because Rome fell and barbarian tribe move into Europe.
Franks, ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe.
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

Question 7

Work of the Dark Ages

Answer 7

Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer

Question 8

Carolingian Renaissance

Answer 8

Mediaeval Grammar, encyclopaedia etc

Question 9

What happens in 1066?

Answer 9

Normal French Army invade and conquers England under William 1
Norman Conquest

Question 10

12th century Renaissance

Answer 10

French chivalric romances spread

Question 11

Late or High Mediaeval Period’s write

Answer 11

Chaucer, Gawain the poet, Pearl the poet, Wakefield Master, William Langland
Italian and French writers- Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Christine de Pisan

Question 12

Century of Renaissance

Answer 12

15th 16th 17th century

Question 13

Which phases does reformation and renaissance see?

Answer 13

early tudor
Elizabethan
jacobean
caroline
commonwealth or puritan

Question 14

What happens in early tudor period?

Answer 14

War of roses end with Henry tudor claiming the throne.
Martin Luther’s split with Rome- Protestanism
Henry 8th Anglican schism- first protestant church

Question 15

Henry Tudor is who

Answer 15

henry 7th

Question 16

Sample poet of Early Tudor

Answer 16

Edmund Spenser

Question 17

Who is writing in the Elizabethan age

Answer 17

Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, Sidney

Question 18

Writers of Jacobean age

Answer 18

Ben Jonson, John Donne, Amelia Lanyer

Question 19

Caroline’s Age

Answer 19

John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick

Question 20

Sons of Ben

Answer 20

, Thomas Killigrew, and William Cavendish.

Question 21

Puritan Interregnum’s writers

Answer 21

Andrew Marvell, Sir Thomas Browne

Question 22

Phases of the enlightenment

Answer 22

Restoration
Augustan
Johnson

Question 23

restoration period’s writers

Answer 23

john dryden, john locke, samuel pepys, aphra behn, william temple

Question 24

Augustan period’s writers

Answer 24

imitation of Virgil, Horace’s literature

Addison, Steele, Swift, Alexander Pope

Question 25

Age of Johnson writers

Answer 25

Samuel Jonson,Edward Gibbon, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray

Question 26

who were the colonial writers

Answer 26

Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

Question 27

Writers of Romantic Period

Answer 27

Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Johann von Goethe in Germany

Question 28

which phases in American lit was conveyed during the English romantic era

Answer 28

Transcendental

Question 29

Transcendentalists’ were who

Answer 29

Emerson and Thoreau

Question 30

who were goths

Answer 30

Radcliff, monk lewis, Bram Stoker

Question 31

American goths

Answer 31

Poe, Hawthorne

Question 32

Victorian era writers

Answer 32

tennyson, Arnold, Browningrobert browning, charles dickins

Question 33

pre raphaelittes were

Answer 33

William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti,

Question 34

aesthetics and decadence movement flourished in____________ and writers were ____________________ _______________

Answer 34

victorian era, walter pater, oscar wilde

Question 35

naturalists writers in America

Answer 35

stephen crane

Question 36

walt whitman wrote in

Answer 36

free verse

Question 37

Emily dickinson wrote in

Answer 37

common measure

Question 38

modernist writers

Answer 38

modernist writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen

Question 39

In America, the modernist period includes

Answer 39

Robert Frost and Flannery O’Connor

Question 40

famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929)

Answer 40

famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929) such as Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.

Question 41

The Harlem Renaissance marks the rise of black writers such as

Answer 41

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes.
Zora Neale Hurston.
Countee Cullen.
Louis Armstrong.