Literary Periods & Genres Quiz

During which period did Greek epic poems like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" originate?

• Renaissance and Reformation Period

• Patristic Period

• Classical Period

• The Modern Period

Which period is marked by the rise of a diversity in black writers such as Baldwin and Ellison?

• The Renaissance and Reformation

• The Postmodern Period

• The Romantic Period

• The Modern Period

Which authors were popular during the Enlightenment period?

• Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes

• John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson

• Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson

• Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston

Which period is marked by the intellectual movements of Aestheticism and 'the Decadence'? Free verse poets flourished!

• The Renaissance and Reformation

• The Victorian Period and the 19th Century

• The Postmodern Period

• The Romantic Period

Which period marked the rise of nature, the imagination, and individuality in England?

• The Romantic period

• The Victorian Period

• The Enlightenment Period

• The Postmodern Period

This period includes authors like Yeats, Heaney, Auden, and Virginia Woolf.

• The Modern Period

• The Homeric Period

• The Postmodern Period

• The Renaissance and Reformation Period

True or False? The Postmodern Period occurred after the Modern Period.

• True

• False

Writing in the Medieval Period included...

• Viking sagas, Old English poems, theological works

• intellectual backlash against Puritanism

• Magical Realism

• Sentimental writing, free verse poetry