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    OLD ENGLISH

    Roman Invasion, Anglo-Saxon Invasion, Christianity arrived, Alfred defeated Danes


    and became king

    Heroic poetry

    Beowulf The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

    He encouraged the use of Old English instead of Latin in literature

    Latin

    True

    MIDDLE ENGLISH

    False

    100 Years’ War, War of the Roses, Black Plague

    mystery plays and morality plays

    Chaucer

    Church lit, knight lit, and folklore

    French

    Tudor

    Norman Invasion

    4 lines each verse, rhyme in 2nd and 4th lines, meter (rhythm)

    translated the Bible from Latin to English


    RENAISSANCE

    True

    True

    Utopia

    humanism

    True

    King James

    comedy - main characters have happy ending tragedy - main characters un-
    happy at end

    True

    rebirth

    new words, idioms

    37 plays 154 sonnets

    actor

    ENLIGHTENMENT

    radical - Swift moderates - Pope, Defoe

    Defoe

    reason, science, education to solve problems, no supernatural

    True

    use of humor or exaggeration to criticize someone in writing

    story which has a moral lesson - entertainment not the main prpose

    Samuel Johnson
    ROMANTICS

    the loom

    Napoleon

    False

    Wordsworth, Coleridge

    free, wild, partying, drinking, playboy, travel

    True

    Keats

    Shelley

    VICTORIANS

    True

    Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, George Eliot

    Mary Anne Evans — to George Eliot

    Dickens

    True

    David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, etc…

    False (19th Century)


    20TH CENTURY

    Owen

    James Joyce, Virginia Woolf

    his son was killed in the war

    Dylan Thomas

    False (hopeless and pessimistic)

    Britain leaving the European Union BR EXIT

    son of Victoria, relaxed and gave freedom in lifestyle and economics, made the
    country prosper until WWI

    George Orwell
    Jeopardy Answers

    True-False F-F-T-T-T

    O.E or M.E. O.E. M.E. M.E. O.E. M.E.

    Kings, Queens King James Alfred Victoria Elizabeth I Edward

    Renaissance poetry Paradise Lost capitalism Greek, Roman


    4 lines per verse, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme, meter or rhythm

    19th Century they lived in the Lake District Dickens Shelley


    playboy, travel, drinking, partying witch cursed a beautiful lady, couldn’t
    look outside, so she cleverly used a mirror to see, then fell in live and
    looked, died.

    20TH CENTURY WW I WW II Great Depression October Revolution, etc…


    modernist writing Yeats plays injustice, inequality

    WHICH PERIOD : Middle English Enlightenment 20th Century Renaissance


    Enlightenment

    Shakespeare: actor happy - comedy new words, idioms


    Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet, etc… Elizabeth I

    -ISMS humanism realism capitalism emotions, nature, freedom,


    supernatural
    modernism

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