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WorksheetsBRITISH LITERATURE
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 23mins
Reorder the following:
Literature
contributes to
the students'
cultural
enrichment.
Literature also provides personal involvement opportunities, as the student becomes enthusiastic to find out what happens as events unfold via the climax; they feel closer to certain characters and share their emotional responses.
True
False
When talking about British Literature, the pieces of writing created in Ireland, English, Wales, and Scotland make the compendium of it. Locate the countries in the map.
British Literature is better understood by the historical periods it went through, and the authors who gained more importance. Match the following:
The Elizabethan Era
William Shakespeare
The Romantic Era
Jane Austen
The Victorian Era
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Modernist Movement
Virginia Woolf
Current Voices
J.K. Rowling
Known for the beginnings of the English language and very little written material. One of the main poems of the time is Beowulf.
The Modernist Movement
Elizabethan Era
Victorian Era
Old English
Known as the most famous and definitive period for poetry. Less about story
and more about emotion. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice are examples of the time.
Current voices
Elizabethan Era
Romantic Era
The Modernist Movement
Author of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, among others; from the Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution.
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Bram Stoker
Robert Louis Stevenson
Complete the quote by C.S. Lewis from the Contemporary English Literature or the 20th. Century: “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too (a) to buy.”
Complete: Beowulf is a heroic journey to (a) .
Now match the following:
Hrothgar
king
Heorot
place
Grendel
monster
Beowulf
warrior
Atheling
prince
Draw the other half of Dr. Jekyll.
Match the terms used in "Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
kinsman
relative, good friend
universality
catholicity
demeanour
manner, character
sinister
evil
Complete the quote: ‘Utterson, I swear to God, ‘ cried the doctor,’ I swear to
God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my (a) to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.”
In Macbeth, this best describes ___________.
They play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers.
Lady Macbeth
The Three Witches
Banquo
Macduff
Reorder the following:
False face
must hide
what the
false heart
doth know.
What best summarizes Macbeth's end is the quote: _________ was from his mother’s womb, ultimely ripped.
Duncan
Macduff
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
As per of the meter of British poetry, the most common is ____________ just like in "If music be the food of love play on."
pyrrhic, dimeter
spondaic, pentameter
iambic, tetrameter
iambic, pentameter
For William Wordsworth a poet from the Romanticism, a teacher is nothing like a poet, as there are no sensory experiences involved, nor emotion or memory.
True
False
Rudyard Kipling, a poet from the Victorian Era wrote "If". Order the verse.
If you can trust yourself
when all men
doubt you,
But make allowance
for their doubting too;
In this excerpt from How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the rhyme scheme is:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
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