BritishLiterature

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Early BritishLiterature

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Literary Terms

Moderns and Post Moderns

Romantics And Victorians

Renaissance

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This was written in Old English and composed between 700 and

900 AD.

AEarly Brit Lit 100

points

What is BEOWULF?

Early Brit Lit 100 points

AEarly Brit Lit 200

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Beowulf is considered this due to a component of the

HERO.

Early Brit Lit 200 points

What is an EPIC?

AEarly Brit Lit 300

points

This was the most popular legend during the middle ages that

dealt with rightful king and the sword in the

stone.

What is ARTHURIAN LEGEND?

Early Brit Lit 300 points

AEarly Brit Lit 400

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This tells the story of a pilgrimage (a trip to visit a holy site for contrition). The group included over 20 people from

different walks of life (a knight, to a preacher, to a miller)..

Early Brit Lit 400 points

What is THE CANTERBURY TALES?

AEarly Brit Lit 500

points

The four types of tales told in the

CANTERBURY TALES

Early Brit Lit 500 points

What are ALLEGORICAL, MORAL, SATIRICAL, and

BAWDY?

A

Renaissance 100 points

The three types of plays in which

Shakespeare wrote.

Renaissance 100 points

What are COMEDIES, HISTORIES and TRAGEDIES?

A

Renaissance 200 points

In a tragedy, the tragic hero possesses one of

these; in Hamlet it is his indecisive nature

Renaissance 200 points

What is TRAGIC FLAW?

A

Renaissance 300 points

Shakespeare makes many allusions to these throughout

his play because of new translations of Greek and

Roman texts.

Renaissance 300 points

What are allusions to Greek and Roman

mythology?

A

Renaissance 400 points

The following is an example of this literary device:

HAMLET: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing/ you make of me! You would play upon me, you/ would seem to know my stops, you would pluck/ out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me/ from my lowest note to the top of my compass (3.2.393-397)

Renaissance 400 points

What is PUN?

A

Renaissance 500 points

This is the term used to describe a secondary character whose traits are designed to highlight traits of a more

prominent character. An example would be Laertes to Hamlet.

Renaissance 500 points

What is CHARACTER

FOIL?

ARomantics and

Victorians 100 points

During the Romantic period, this was the

focus instead of society as a whole.

Romantics andVictorians 100 points

What is the INDIVIDUAL?

ARomantics andVictorians 200 points

The Romantics rejected this aspect

of modern life.

Romantics andVictorians 200 points

What is THE INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION?

ARomantics andVictorians 300 points

This was the most common type of

literature produced during the Romantic

period.

Romantics andVictorians 300 points

What is POETRY?

ARomantics andVictorians 400 points

During the Victorian Era and Wuthering Heights, the most common theme

was this.

Romantics and Victorians 400 points

What is CLASS SYSTEM?

A Romantics and

Victorians 500 points

Bronte’s version of the “hero”; classic element of

Victorian literature; Heathcliff is an example

because of his dark nature.

Romantics andVictorians 500 points

What is the SATANIC HERO?

APost and Moderns 100 points

This literary period was known as the period after WWI.

Post and Moderns 100 points

What is the MODERN PERIOD?

APost and Moderns 200 points

This is the literary period that exists

after WWII.

Post and Moderns 200 points

What is POST-MODERN

LITERATURE?

APost and Moderns 300 points

A work of literature where a futuristic society is

presented as incredibly imperfect.

Post and Moderns 300 points

What is DYSTOPIAN

LITERATURE?

APost and Moderns 400 points

This work portrays man as selfishly individualistic as

philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggests.

Post and Moderns 400 points

What is LORD OF THE FLIES?

APost and Moderns 500 points

The most powerful symbol in Lord of the Flies used to symbolize civilization and

order.

Post and Moderns 500 points

What is the CONCH SHELL?

The following is a dramatic literary device used by Shakespeare:

ALit Devices 100 points

HAMLET: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I/ will more willingly part withal—except my life,/ except my life, except my life.POLONIUS: Fare you well, my lord.HAMLET: These tedious old fools. (2.2.233-237)

What is ASIDE?

Lit Devices 100 points

Piggy’s glasses would be considered one of these because it

represents knowledge.

ALit Devices 200 points

Lit Devices 200 points

What is SYMBOL?

Name that device:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was

the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had

everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the

other way."

ALit Devices 300 points

What is ANTITHESIS?

Lit Devices 300 points

And I will love thee still, my Dear,

Till a‘ the seas gang dry.

ALit Devices 400 points

What is HYPERBOLE?

Lit Devices 400 points

ALit Devices 500 points

The following is an example of which literary device:

"As the cave's roof collapsed, he was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah, and

only his frantic scrabbling behind a wall of rock indicated that there was anyone still

alive".

Lit Devices 500 points

What is ALLUSION?

DAILY

DOUBLE!