Post Test English Literature – Flashcards
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In the middle English work by Geoffrey Chaucer, pilgrims pass the time telling stories
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The Canterbury Tales
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Noted for hi satires of corruption, this individual published Gulliver's Travels in 1726
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Johnathan Swift
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William Shakespeare wrote all to the following except
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The Waste Land
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After serving as secretary to Oliver Cromwell, this man wrote his masterpiece, Paradise lost, in blindness and poverty
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John Milton
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Two lyric poets of the Romantic Period were
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John Keats & Perey Shelley
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Individual creativity, imagination and emotion instead of reason and intellect; sympathy with nature; freedom from tradition, with which period or movement of English literature do these correspond?
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Romanticism
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The horror of WWI, disillusionment with European civilization; radical experimentation in literature; alienation of artist. These marked the beginning of which literary period?
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Modernism
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The literature of this period is best known as reflecting the life styles of the pleasure-loving upper class that returned to power with Charles II.
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Restoration
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The English drama first developed into a sophisticated are form in which period?
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The Elizabethan Period
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During this period, the reading public suddenly became much larger because novels were often read allowed in the family circle, novelists were forced to avoid topics that might embarrass impressionable young ladies. Which period does this describe?
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Victorian
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The "Norma Invasion" heralded the influence of which European language on the English tongue?
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French
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Which social upheaval effectively destroyed the English theatre and beheaded a king?
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The Puritan Rebellion
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The Industrial Revolution; The American Revolution; the French Revolution. Which period of English literature corresponds to these events?
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The Victorian Era
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During this period; England's early industrialization enabled her to capture markets worldwide; the naton was enormously wealthy, the leading financial power in the world. It's empire spread over a quarter of the world's surface.
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the early seventeenth century
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Which of the following did NOT occur in the twentieth century?
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The political domination of Ireland by the English finally came to an era
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An author's choice of words is called
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diction
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A short, song-like poem expressing a personal thought, mood, or feeling is called
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a lyric
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A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter and conventional rhyme scheme is called
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a sonnet
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A type of writing that ridicules people, ideas, or things in order to provoke change is called
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satire
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A grouping of lives as a separate unit in a poem is called
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a stanza
