Literature A6
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Slide 1 - Tekstslide
Put the four time periods in the correct order.
Old English period
Middle English period
Renaissance
Victorian Age
Slide 2 - Sleepvraag
Slide 3 - Tekstslide
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 - Quizvraag
Which of the following poetic devices is NOT characteristic of Old English poetry?
A
caesura
B
formulas
C
kennings
D
end-rhyme
Slide 5 - Quizvraag
How where literary works transmitted in the Old English period?
Slide 6 - Open vraag
Slide 7 - Tekstslide
Which important event can be perceived as the starting point of the Middle English period?
Slide 8 - Open vraag
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 - Quizvraag
Which author from the Middle English period did we study?
A
Chaucer
B
Caedmon
C
Dickens
D
Milton
Slide 10 - Quizvraag
Into which two parts could the Canterbury Tales be divided?
Slide 11 - Open vraag
Which class did the Squire belong to?
A
nobility
B
clergy
C
commoners
Slide 12 - Quizvraag
Why did John and Alan go to Simkin in the Reeve's Tale?
Slide 13 - Open vraag
Explain the sentence "one who beguiles, beguiled himself shall be".
Slide 14 - Open vraag
Slide 15 - Tekstslide
What language was spoken in the Renaissance period?
A
Old English
B
Middle English
C
Early Modern English
D
Modern English
Slide 16 - Quizvraag
OE / ME period
Renaissance
Memento Mori
Carpe Diem
the community
the individual
theocentric
anthropocentric
Slide 17 - Sleepvraag
Indicate alliteration
in these lines.
in these lines.
Slide 18 - Open vraag
Indicate assonance
in these lines.
in these lines.
Slide 19 - Open vraag
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 - Quizvraag
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 - Quizvraag
Who spoke these words?
Slide 22 - Open vraag
What makes the play of Macbeth a typical 'tragedy'?
Slide 23 - Open vraag
Slide 24 - Tekstslide
Give one positive and one negative aspect of Victorian society.
Slide 25 - Open vraag
What was introduced at the end of the Victorian Age to improve the situation of the proletariat?
Slide 26 - Open vraag
Charles Dickens
Brontë sisters
Gothic influences
Autobiographical elements
Round characters
Caricatures
(Subtle) irony
Importance of setting
Slide 27 - Sleepvraag
Give an example of an autobiographical element for both the Brontë sisters and Dickens.
Slide 28 - Open vraag
"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 - Open vraag
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 - Sleepvraag
I am feeling confident about the literature test!
A
Not at all
B
A little
C
Quite
D
Yes!!!
