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WorksheetsEnglish Literature: Britain's Lite History
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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
Why did the number of people interested in English literature increase during the Renaissance period?
The introduction of money economy
The development of education
The introduction of printing press
The introduction of judicial system
What did Romantics show more than the previous eras?
spirituality
love
emotion
loyalty
What were the moral virtues of literature in Victorian age?
love for the country and faithfulness and conjugal love in the family
conflict between those in power and the common masses of laborers and the poor
heroines in physical danger
an accurate and detailed portrayal of ordinary contemporary life
The war of roses in Britain refer to _____.
religious wars
civil wars
resistance wars
wars over roses
What is contemporary literature concerned with?
the ease of communication
the inner thoughts of people
the human potential
the connection between people
What is another name of the Old English period?
Anglo-Saxon period
Enlightenment period
The Age of Reason
Medieval period
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas Malory
Bede
Caedmon
The Renaissance Period is also called …
The Elizabethan Age
Neoclassical period
The Victorian Age
Mediaval period
What literary period did William Wordsworth belong to?
Romantic period
Old English period
Enlightenment period
Victorian Age
Which incident is considered as the beginning of the Renaissance in England?
the death of Chaucer
the end of War of Roses
the crusade
the birth of Shakespeare
What does the Restoration period concern about?
romance
reason and logic
patriotism
individualism
Romanticism emphasized …
Romanticism emphasized …
Individual’s imagination and emotion
Innermost struggle
The influence of media
Which is a popular form of literature of the Medieval period?
folk ballads
essays
poetry
drama
What influenced writers' ways of thinking in the 20th century?
Individualism
gender equality
the demand of independence
the growth of science and technology
When did literature begin to reach the masses?
during the Renaissance period
during the Victorian period
during the Restoration period
during the Modern period
