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BritishLiterature
This is Jeopardy! Review Game
Early BritishLiterature
100
Literary Terms
Moderns and Post Moderns
Romantics And Victorians
Renaissance
200
300
400
500
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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
points
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
points
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!