Literature and Poetry Quiz

The author who developed the genre of satirical comedies:

• William Shakespeare

• Ben Johnson

• Christopher Marlowe

• Thomas Nashe

• Mark Twain

Mark Twain's first novel is:

• "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

• "A Tramp abroad"

• The Golden Age"

• "Paradise Lost"

• "The Canterbury Tales"

The creator of the sonnet form consisting of three quatrains and a couplet, the poet who, the father of modern English periodicals:

• Henry Surrey

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Edmund Spenser

• W. Shakespeare

• Ben Johnson

The "Golden" comedy by W. Shakespeare with Duke Orsino, Countess Olivin as main characters:

• "Twelfth Night"

• "Much Ado About Nothing"

• "The Taming pf the Shrew"

• "As You Like It"

• "The Golden Age"

Who was the first English classicist:

• Alexander Pope

• Venerable Bede

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Sir Thomas More

• King Alfred the Great

"Paradise Lost" is one of Milton's greatest...

• Epic

• Tragedies

• Epic poem

• Sonnets

• Dramas

The famous poets of the 1st period of the Renaissance

• King Alfred the Great

• D. Defoe, J. Swift

• Thomas more, Thomas Malory

• W. Shakespeare, G. Chaucer

• G. Chaucer, Thomas Malory

… is considered to be the father of Anglo - Saxon prose:

• Venerable Bede

• King Alfred the Great

• Alexander Pope

• Henry Howard

• Thomas More

"Pericles", "The winter's Tale" are Shakespeare's greatest

• Comedies

• Romances

• Sonnets

• Tragedies

• Prose

What trend did American writers of the late 19th century use to express the truth and challenge outdated conventions?

• Sentimentalism

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Classicism

• Absurdism