WorksheetsLiterary history
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Age of Enlightenment. Which persons were important?
Spinoza, Voltaire, Karl Marx
Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Newton
Machiavelli, Voltaire, Spinoza, Kant
Spinoza, Socrates, Voltaire, Karl Marx
In what century does the Age of Enlightenment take place?
16th
17th
18th
19th
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
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
Which male writer wrote about the appalling living conditions in the Victorian era?
Stephen Charles
Charles Dickens
Harry Windsor
Harriet Stowe
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
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
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.
Postmodern literature is known for it's lack of originality and reliance on clichés (this is an opinion!)
true
false
Which of the following are attributes in postmodern literature?
Author is a character.
Blurred reality and fiction.
Commenting on its own bookishness
Intertextuality.
All of the above
The start of postmodernism is linked with the end of which war?
The hundred years' war
The clone wars.
World War II
Charlie Wilson's war
Which Margaret Atwood novel describes a world controlled by Christian zealots?
The testaments
The Handmaid's tale
Surfacing
The heart goes last.
What was the most important theme of the romantic period?
supernatural
nature
myths
religion
What time did the romatic period start and end
1760-1810
1770-1820
1780-1820
1790-1830
What caused the romantic period?
It started because of a lack of enjoyable literature
It started as a reaction to the age of Enlightment
It started because of the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek texts
It started as an effort by the catholic church to convert people back to christianity
