Literature Through History

Age of Enlightenment. Which persons were important?

• Spinoza, Voltaire, Karl Marx

• Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Newton

• Machiavelli, Voltaire, Spinoza, Kant

• Spinoza, Socrates, Voltaire, Karl Marx

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In what century does the Age of Enlightenment take place?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

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what was the main event in the Age of Enlightenment?

• science became more important, whilst the church's power was reduced

• communism was getting more important

• in this age a lot of philosophers were born

• more and more people started divorcing one another

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What was a new focus of literature in the Victorian era?

• upper class

• religious class

• children

• female rights

Which class was most mostly depicted in stories from the Victorian era

• upper class

• middle class

• working class

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Which male writer wrote about the appalling living conditions in the Victorian era?

• Stephen Charles

• Charles Dickens

• Harry Windsor

• Harriet Stowe

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The Romantic period - and its focus on nature - followed as a response to which era of science and rationality?

• the Victorian era

• the 20th century

• Modernism

• the Age of Enlightenment

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Which aspects became important aspects of literature in the Romantic era?

• science and technilogy

• nature and emotion

• day and night

• reason and money

Which of the following poets is one of the most famous Romantic poets?

• Carol Ann Duffy

• William Wordsworth

• Siegfried Sassoon

• Dax

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Which of the following are common conventions of postmodern literary writing

• Straightforward plots and realistic situations.

• Clear and obvious meanings.

• A respect for previous literary styles and conventions.

• Metafiction and intertextuality.

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