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What was Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) main theme?

The _____ Revolution was seen by Romantics as evidence that a new era was dawning in Europe. It was significant for Romantics because it brought down a _________ and replaced it with a ____________.

True or False:
Beowulf is important in English Literature because:
It was written in the early Anglo-Saxon dialect and is rooted in the Germanic oral tradition.

Which of the plays below, was Christopher Marlow's first mayor one?

Some characteristics of the poetry of the Romantic period dishonors and degrades women.

Wordsworth is considered the most radical of the Romantic period, because he is the most accomplished and subtle poet.

Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement from roughly 1790 to 1830 in which _____ and _____ were seen as guiding principles.

Which ones of these writers/poets are linked to the 17th century?

“Songs of Experience” and “Songs of Innocence” written by William Blake do not hold the similar subject-matter, tone , emphasis and conclusion.

True or false?

The novel as most people think of it today first appeared in England in the 17th century with the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.

In a Defoe novel, people are launched into the world and have to create their own identity and social role.

Which novelist was the most significant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and achieved fame with ‘Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)?

Edmund Spenser wrote the poem Epithalamion about a perfect, timeless world with happiness as the dominant emotion and the idea of holding the established order together in the 1590s. Why is that rather ironic for that time period?

Which of the following factors did not shape the political, social and economic context within which W H Auden, Noel Coward, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, George Orwell and Christopher Isherwood wrote their most famous works:

The literary form that is most typical of the 16th century is the

The term …… is used extensively in relation to seventeenth-century music and architecture, and can also be applied to John Donne’s poetry.

Literature was influenced by three major thinkers of the Victorian period, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Match the authors to their written works.

1. Charles Darwin a. Das Kapital
2. Sigmund Freud b. Studies in Hysteria
3. Karl Marx c. The Origin of Species

E.g. 1A 2C etc.

Middle English is noted for:

What is the defining change in subject of British novels after the Second World War?

On the whole, Byron’s poetry is one of experience. His heroes are more or less surrogates of himself.

Which element is incorporated in nearly all Renaissance tragedies?

Hardy’s novels almost invariably end with the death of the main characters. However one ends with marriage. Which one?

What event profoundly affected the way authors thought and wrote in the early twentieth century?

What did W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender have in common in the late 20s and 30s ?

We can sum up Middle English literature as:

The central theme of 16th century literature is

Old English was spoken and written for:

What do Kazuo Ishiguro, Salmon Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul have in common as novelists?

2. Match the following authors and works:

A. Daniel Defoe 1. Ivanhoe
B. Samuel Richardson 2. Emma
C. Laurence Sterne 3. Frankenstein
D. Walter Scott 4. Shamela
E. Marry Shelly 5. Robinson Crusoe
F. Henry Fielding 6. Pamela
G. Jane Austen 7. Tristam Shandy

E.g. A1 B3 C2 etc.

Who wrote the sonnet 'Whoso list to hunt'?

Which one of these themes, motifs or symbols does NOT play a role in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

In which period of English Literature did the presence of a homosexual subculture first become apparent?

Why was Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) an exponent of the Romantic period?

What was one of the main events in 16th century England that caused an increasing sense of national and linguistic confidence for English poets, so that they felt free to seek their own style of writing?

The implicit idea in all of Kipling’s early stories is essentially the same as in ‘His Private Honour’:

Statement 1: The main theme of the story of Sir Gawain is the testing of a knight, his courage and honour.

Statement 2: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales paints a lively picture of the diverse range of people who lived in England during the late Middle ages.

Read the statements below and choose the correct answer.

I Sylvia Plath was a poet who proved to contribute to late 20th century English Literature although she was not British.

II Paul Muldoon is a poet who proves not to write about the Northern Irish troubles in his poems.

The novel, which appeared in England in the early eighteenth century, serves as a mirror for:

Both William Thackery (Vanity fair) and Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South) address in their books one subject in particular. Thackery’s approach is more negative, Gaskell’s approach is more positive. What subject is that?

Victorian Novels helped people to make sense of their lives and gave guidance on how they could keep it together in a changing world. These characteristics worked really well in Charles Dickens’s novels because they had an additional element. What was that element?

What is the title of Chaucer's best-known work?

Which of these plays is written by S. Beckett?

English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and _____

Beowulf is regarded as ____________ poem and was written in ___________ English and set in __________.

Which English monarch was also adept at writing poems?

The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Middlemarch (1871) were novels written by which female Victorian author?

Shakespeare's plays are divided in 5 groups. Please match the plays and the groups below:

Plays:
1. Hamlet
2. The Tempest
3. Macbeth
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
6. Richard II
7. As You Like It
8. The Comedy of Errors
9. Julius Caesar
10. The Merchant of Venice

Groups:
a. Early Plays (apprentice works)
b. English History Plays
c. Great Comedies
d. Tragedies
e. Late Plays

Put the letters in the right order, like this: 1a 2b 3c 4d etc.

William Wordsworth’s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from ______ life expressed in the language of ______ people.

The Seafarer:

Match the following authors with their works:

a. TS Eliot
b. James Joyce
c. Virginia Woolf

1. The Waste Land
2. The Voyage Out
3. The Cocktail Party
4. Ulysses
5. To The Lighthouse
6. Mrs Dalloway
7. The Sacred Wood
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
9. Dubliners

E.g. a=123 b=456