Literature A6
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Slide 1 - Diapositive
Put the four time periods in the correct order.
Old English period
Middle English period
Renaissance
Victorian Age
Slide 2 - Question de remorquage
Slide 3 - Diapositive
Which of the four works we studied is from the Old English period?
A
Oliver Twist
B
MacBeth
C
Beowulf
D
The Canterbury Tales
Slide 4 - Quiz
Which of the following poetic devices is NOT characteristic of Old English poetry?
A
caesura
B
formulas
C
kennings
D
end-rhyme
Slide 5 - Quiz
How where literary works transmitted in the Old English period?
Slide 6 - Question ouverte
Slide 7 - Diapositive
Which important event can be perceived as the starting point of the Middle English period?
Slide 8 - Question ouverte
Which of the following was NOT yet introduced in English poetry during the ME period?
A
end-rhyme
B
metre
C
alliteration
D
rhyming couplets
Slide 9 - Quiz
Which author from the Middle English period did we study?
A
Chaucer
B
Caedmon
C
Dickens
D
Milton
Slide 10 - Quiz
Into which two parts could the Canterbury Tales be divided?
Slide 11 - Question ouverte
Which class did the Squire belong to?
A
nobility
B
clergy
C
commoners
Slide 12 - Quiz
Why did John and Alan go to Simkin in the Reeve's Tale?
Slide 13 - Question ouverte
Explain the sentence "one who beguiles, beguiled himself shall be".
Slide 14 - Question ouverte
Slide 15 - Diapositive
What language was spoken in the Renaissance period?
A
Old English
B
Middle English
C
Early Modern English
D
Modern English
Slide 16 - Quiz
OE / ME period
Renaissance
Memento Mori
Carpe Diem
the community
the individual
theocentric
anthropocentric
Slide 17 - Question de remorquage
Indicate alliteration
in these lines.
in these lines.
Slide 18 - Question ouverte
Indicate assonance
in these lines.
in these lines.
Slide 19 - Question ouverte
Which type of sonnet has the following rhyme-scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A
Italian sonnet
B
Spenserian sonnet
C
Shakespearian sonnet
Slide 20 - Quiz
Into how many acts was a typical Renaissance play divided, following Aristotle's model?
A
2 acts
B
3 acts
C
4 acts
D
5 acts
Slide 21 - Quiz
Who spoke these words?
Slide 22 - Question ouverte
What makes the play of Macbeth a typical 'tragedy'?
Slide 23 - Question ouverte
Slide 24 - Diapositive
Give one positive and one negative aspect of Victorian society.
Slide 25 - Question ouverte
What was introduced at the end of the Victorian Age to improve the situation of the proletariat?
Slide 26 - Question ouverte
Charles Dickens
Brontë sisters
Gothic influences
Autobiographical elements
Round characters
Caricatures
(Subtle) irony
Importance of setting
Slide 27 - Question de remorquage
Give an example of an autobiographical element for both the Brontë sisters and Dickens.
Slide 28 - Question ouverte
"It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop."
Why is this sentence characteristic for Dickens' work?
Why is this sentence characteristic for Dickens' work?
Slide 29 - Question ouverte
Canterbury Tales
MacBeth
Oliver Twist
Beowulf
If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of the church-wardens ...
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue ...
For every trick, each clever move they make, the more that I can steal the more I'll take;
Oft Scyld Scefing // sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum,// meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas....
Slide 30 - Question de remorquage
I am feeling confident about the literature test!
A
Not at all
B
A little
C
Quite
D
Yes!!!
