English Literature: Britain's Lite History

What was NOT a typical Anglo-Saxon literature?

• song

• heroic poem

• chronicle novel

• war tale

Who is the leader during the Renaissance period at its height?

• Queen Victoria

• Henry VII

• Queen Elizabeth I

• King George

What is the period of the rise of William Shakespeare?

• Renaissance

• Modern Period

• Middle English

• Old English

Who is one of the authors whose fame rose in the Late Modernism?

• Thomas Hardy

• J.K.Rowling

• Christopher Marlowe

• Virginia Woolf

Why is it that John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Colley called the Metaphysical Poets?

- Their works are characterized by the use of ...

• humor

• conceit

• puns

• physics

Which period of English literature starts from 1950’s?

• Old English

• Modern English

• Postmodern English

• Middle English

  Who among the English writers was NOT from Romantic Period? 

• Robert Burns

• Lord Byron

• William Wordsworth

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

Which literary period points outs refinement, clarity, elegance, and balance of judgement?

• Jacobean Age

• Elizabethan Age

• Restoration

• Augustan Age

What country was the literary form of sonnet English writers adopted from?

• Italy

• France

• Spain

• Germany

What is the most noticeable feature of Old English poetry?

• Structural alliteration

• Lyrical ballads

• Metaphysical ideas

• Various aspects of love