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SALTBritishYearFinal
Study Helps for British Lit Final Exam!
Question | Answer |
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Who proposed the idea of transcendentalism and one World Spirit? | Immanuel Kant |
In what period was Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur written? | Victorian |
In which era did coffeehouses become the place to meet? | Neoclassical |
What era was considered the "Age of Reason"? | Neoclassical |
In which era was the Industrial Revolution? | Neoclassical |
Who wrote Gulliver's Travels? | Jonathan Swift |
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe? | Daniel Defoe |
Who wrote Paradise Lost? | John Milton |
Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress? | John Bunyan |
Who wrote "She Walks in Beauty"? | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
What was Isaac Watts known for? | Hymns |
What was Charles Wesley known for? | Hymns |
Who wrote "Crossing the Bar"? | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Who wrote "The Lamb" and "The Tyger"? | William Blake |
Who wrote "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse"? | Robert Burns |
In what age did Pantheism (the false idea that Nature is God) come about? | Romantic |
In what era did people write more from the heart than from intellect? | Romantic |
Who credited nature as being the major formative influence on his writing? | William Wordsworth |
In what era did novels become popular? | Romantic |
Who wrote Ozymandias? | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
What is the primary subject of the Romantic poem? | the poet |
Who was the longest running English monarch? | Victoria |
In what period did the middle class start to rise? | Victorian |
In what age was there a deeply conservative morality? | Victorian |
When did the British Empire cover 1/4 of the globe? | Victorian Age |
When did people start to trust science more than Scripture? | Victorian Age |
In what era was Pride and Prejudice written? | well, what do you think? :) |
In what era was Macbeth written? | Renaissance |
In what era was Fellowship of the Ring written? | Modern |
Who wrote "Crossing the Bar"? | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
When was poetry sung, not written? | Old English |
When did people worship Wyrd or Fate? | Old English |
When was Beowulf written/told? | Old English |
Which was the age of Chivalry? | Middle English |
What was the age of lyrical, folk ballads? | Middle English |
When did John Wycliffe translate the Bible from Latin to English? | Middle English |
When was Malory's Morte d'Arthur written? | Middle English |
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? | Geoffrey Chaucer |
What was the era of rebirth? | Renaissance |
When was Queen Elizabeth the monarch? | Renaissance |
Who wrote The Faerie Queene? | Edmund Spenser |
When was Foxe's Book of Martyrs published? | Renaissance |
In what era did Shakespeare write? | Renaissance |
In which era was the sonnet perfected? | Renaissance |
What was printed in 1611? | King James Version of the Bible |
Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
Be familiar with characters from Macbeth | Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Lady Macduff, Banquo, Fleance, Weird Sisters, Malcolm |
Be familiar with characters from Fellowship of the Ring | Frodo, Gandalf, Boromir, Gimli, Legolas, Samwise, Merry, Pippin, Gollum |
Be familiar with characters from Pride & Prejudice | Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Collins, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Wickham |