SECTION III

LITERARY PERIODS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

2013 - 2014 (2) - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 (2) - 2020 !

edebi ÖSYM tablolarla Her bir

dönem o döneme ait ipucu olan anahtar terimler (key terms) ile
dönemin ve eserleri (authors - works) mevcuttur. Dönemler veya o döneme ait
yazar ya da eserler ile ilgili sorular da ilgili dönemin tablosunun

1. OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (450 - 1066)

• Latin language
• Oral & written literature
• Anglo-Saxons
• Church / religion / sermons / faith
KEY TERMS • Pagan & Christian motifs
• Alliterations / Kennings
• Epic / heroism
• Saints’ lives
• Bible’s translations

• Caedmon (first poet known) - Caedmon’ Hymn Paraphrase

• Venerable Bede - Ecclesiastical History of English People
• King Alfred (first king) - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (prose)
AUTHORS & WORKS • Anonymous - Beowulf (first epic poem)
• Anonymous - The Dream of the Rood (poem)
• Anonymous - The Wanderer (wide-goer) (Elegy - poem)
• Anonymous - The Seafarer (poem)
 2. MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1066 - 1485)

• French & Latin language

• Black death
• Printing press - William Caxton
• King Arthur
KEY TERMS • Feudalism / Christianity
• Romance / love / knights
• Allegory
• 3M Plays (Cycle Plays)
-Morality / Mystery / Miracle
• Chivalric code

• Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (a collection of 24 stories)

(Geoffrey Chaucer is known as ‘Father of the English Literature’)

• Sir Thomas Malory - Morte D’Arthur (prose)

AUTHORS & WORKS
• William Langland - Piers Plowman (poem)
• Anonymous - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poem)
• Anonymous - Everyman - (morality play)

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The Canterbury Tales is widely considered Chaucer’s masterpiece. It is a collection of tales told by pilgrims on
their way to the shrine of St Thomas á Becket in Canterbury. Although Chaucer was presumably familiar with
borrows the idea of the collection of tales

portrait of 14th-century life.

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

CEVAP: Chaucer’s inspiration in writing The Canterbury Tales was Boccaccio’s Decameron.

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 3. THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1485 - 1660)
• a) Elizabethan Period: The Reign of Elizabeth I (1586 - 1603)
- Stability - Peace - Humanism (human love)
- Patronage / “GOLDEN AGE OF DRAMA”
- “Golden age of English Literature”
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- W. Shakespeare - Sir Philip Sidney - Edmund Spencer -
KEY TERMS Christopher Marlowe - Sir Thomas More - Thomas Nashe.
• b) Jacobean Period: The Reign of James I (1603 - 1624)
- Chaos - wastefulness - financial crisis
- Hundred Year’s War - Civil War
- Cavalier poetry (carpe diem) - Ben Johnson
- Metaphysical poetry - conceit - John Donne - Andrew Marvell
- Revenge tragedy - masques
- John Milton - Francis Bacon - John Webster

• Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene (Poem)

- The Shepheard's Calendar (Poem)
- Epithalamion (Poem) - Prothalamion (Poem)
• Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella (Poem)
- The Defence of Poesy (Poem)
• Sir Walter Raleigh - The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (Poem)
- The Lie (Poem) - Farewell False Love (Lyrics)
• Sir Thomas More - Utopia (Prose)
• Thomas Nashe - The Unfortunate Traveller
AUTHORS & WORKS - The Life of Jack Wilton (considered as first picaresque novel)
• Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (Drama)
- The Jew of Malta (Drama)
• John Donne - Flea (Metaphysical poetry - conceit)
• John Milton - Paradise Lost (Epic poetry)
• Andrew Marwell - To His Coy Mistress (Poem)
• Francis Bacon - The Essays (Prose)
• Ben Johnson - The Alchemist - (Drama)
- Every Man in His Humour (comedy of humour)
• John Webster - (revenge tragedy)
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decides to sell his soul to the devil in exchange

for twenty-four years of absolute power and knowledge.
Complete the given sentence.
CEVAP: Doctor Faustus

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564 - 1616)

En büyük oyun biri olarak William
karakterlerde insan en özelliklerini benzersiz bir diliyle
bu yana her ve her ülkede en sahnelenen
dram ve komedi türlerinde hem hem hem de her ikisini birlikte kullanarak eserler
perdeden alma gibi hemen
hemen tüm insani derinlemesine Shakespeare birbirinden komedi ve
trajediler kaleme Shakespeare'in 37 oyun ve 154 sone (14 var olan en önemli
eserler olarak kabul edilmektedir.

Plays written by Shakespeare

Comedies Romances Tragedies

• As You Like it
• Twelfth Night
• The Merchant of Venice
(tragicomedy)
• A Midsummer Night's
Dream
(romantic comedy)
• The Comedy of Error
• Much Ado About
Nothing
(comedy of manner)
• AII Well That Ends • Richard II • King Lear
• Measure for Measure • Richard III • Macbeth
• The Winter's Tale • Henry IV Part 1
• Othello
• The Tempest • Henry IV Part 2
(domestic tragedy)
(his last play) • Henry V
• Henry VI Part 1 • Hamlet
• Henry VI Part 2 (revenge tragedy)
• Henry VI Part 3 • Romeo & Juliet
• Henry VIII
• Julius Caesar
• King John
•Antony and Cleopatra
• Titus Andronicus

• The Taming of the

Shrew

• Love's Labor Lost

• The Two Gentlemen of

Verona (h
 4. THE NEOCLASSICAL (RESTORATION - ENLIGHTENMENT)
PERIOD (1660 - 1798)

• Back to Ancient Greeks and Romans

• A reaction against the chaotic environment of Renaissance
• Birth of the Novel
• Scepticism
• Freethinking
KEY TERMS
• Satire / “Age of Satire”
• Reason over emotion
• Satire / Ode
• Comedy of Manners
• Reason / “AGE OF REASON”

• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (first novel)

- Moll Flanders (picaresque novel)
• Samuel Richardson - Pamela (epistolary novel)
- Clarissa (novel)
- Sir Charles Grandson (epistolary novel)
• Henry Fielding - Shamela (allusion to Pamela)
- Joseph Andrews (novel)
- Tom Jones (novel)
• Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal (satire)
AUTHORS & WORKS
- Gulliver's Travels (satire & fantastic)
• John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (allegory)
• Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock (mock epic)
- Essay on Man (poem)
• John Dryden - Mack Flecknoe (satire)
- Annus Mirabilis (poem)
- Absalom and Architophel (poem)
- AII for Love (drama)
• William Congreve - The Way of the World (drama)

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Which author-work pair belongs to The Age of Reason? CEVAP: Alexander Pope - Essay on Man

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Which author-novel pair does not belong to the Victorian Period?
CEVAP: Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
 5. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798 - 1837)
KEY TERMS
AUTHORS & WORKS
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Which author-work pair is incorrect? CEVAP: George Eliot - Frankenstein
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• It made a start with the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) by
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• the belief in the goodness of humanity
• provoking imaginative power and fancy
• the exploration of the artist as an individual creator
• the superiority of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect
• emotions in.
•
• Gothic novel
• Blank verse
• Nature descriptions
• Allegory and simile
• Ballad / lyric
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - William Wordsworth - Jane Austen -
Ann Radcliffe - Sir Walter Scott - Mary Shelley - Edgar Allan Poe -
William Blake - Lord Byron
• Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Sense and Sensibility P
- - Emma R
- Northanger Abbey - Persuasion O
• Sir Walter Scott - The Talisman S
• Edgar Allan Poe - The Black Cat E
• Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho (gothic novel)
• Mary Shelley - Frankestein (fantastic / gothic / epistolary novel)
• William Blake - Songs of Innocence (poem)
- Songs of Experience (poem)
• William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads (poem)
- The Prelude (poem)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem)
• Lord Byron - Manfred (poem)
 6. THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (1837 - 1901)

• Industrialization and British power reached its peak.

• Charles Darwin - Evolution - Natural Selection - survival of the fittest
•
rushed to the cities and lived even more miserably.
• The struggles between workers and capitalists
• The bourgeois and the church are very strong.
KEY TERMS
• Female authors created works with male nicknames.
• Subjects like child labor and
inequalities were the concerns of Victorian poets.
• “GOLDEN AGE OF NOVEL.”
• Charles Dickens - Oscar Wilde - Emily Bronte - Charlotte Bronte -
Lewis Carrol - Joseph Conrad - Robert Browning - Bram Stoker -
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Rudyard Kipling - George Eliot -
Thomas Hardy

• Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist - David Copperfield

- Great Expectations (First three - bildungsroman)
- A Christmas Carol - Hard Times - A Tale of Two Cities
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (farce)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (his only novel published)
• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (gothic / epistolary novel)
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (bildungsroman)
• Lewis Carrol - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (fantasy novel)
• Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (novella)
AUTHORS & WORKS • Robert Browning - My Last Duchess (dramatic monologue)
• Bram Stoker - Dracula (gothic / epistolary novel)
• Alfred Lord Tennyson - Ulysses - In Memoriam (poem)
• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book - Kim - If (poem)
• George Eliot - Middlemarch -The Mill on the Floss - Silas Marner
• Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure - Tess of the D'urbervilles
- Far from the Madding Crowd - The Return of the Native
• William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (prose)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins - God's Grandeur (poem)
• Matthew Arnold - The Scholar Gypsy (poem)
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Which is not written by Charles Dickens?

CEVAP: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Which author-work pair is given incorrectly?

CEVAP: David Herbert Lawrence - Heart of Darkness

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The Victorian Era of Great Britain occurred during the height of the British industrial revolution. This time period

change came as the economy shifted away from the farm life into a more urban economy based on trade and

social life.

Which of the following author- work pairs belongs to the Victorian Age?

CEVAP: Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

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Who painted a vivid picture of rural Life in the 19th century, which all it is joy and suffering, in his Far
and the other works set in Wessex?

CEVAP: Thomas Hardy

 7. THE MODERN PERIOD (1901 - …) (20th CENTURY)

• Modernism (till 1950s)

• Post-modernism (after 1950s)
• No tradition
• Impressionism
• World War I & II
• Post-war economic depression
• Spiritual disillusion
• Rise of philosophical ideas
• Karl Marx’s scientific socialism
• Darwin’s theory of evolution
KEY TERMS
• Nietzsche’s nihilism
• Stream of consciousness
• Realistic novels / social problems
• The Angry Young Men / Absurdist Theatre
• künstlerroman ( .)
• Virginia Woolf - James Joyce - George Orwell - H.G. Wells -
Anthony Burgess - E.M. Forster - Aldous Huxley - T.S. Eliot -
William Golding - D.H. Lawrence - Harold Pinter - John Osborne -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Wilfred Owen - Siegfried Sassoon -
William Butler Yeats - Samuel Becket - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Bernard Shaw

• Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (stream of consciousness)

- Mrs. Dalloway (stream of consciousness)
- Orlando (novel)
- The Waves (novel)
• James Joyce - Ulysses (stream of consciousness)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (künstlerroman)
AUTHORS & WORKS - Dubliners (a collection of fifteen short stories)
- Finnegan's Wake (novel)
• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) (dystopian novel)
- Animal Farm (Fable & Satire)
• Anthony Burgess - The Clockwork Orange
(dystopian - satirical - black comedy novel)
• E.M. Forster - A Passage to India (novel)
 • H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (science-fiction novel)
- The War of the Worlds (science-fiction novel)
- The First Man on the Moon (science-fiction novel)
- Kipps (science-fiction novel)

• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (dystopian novel)

- The Doors of Perception (prose)

• William Golding - The Lord of the Flies (allegoric novel)

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes (prose)

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (prose)

- Of Love and Other Demons (prose)

• D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (prose)

• T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land (poem)

AUTHORS & WORKS
• Wilfred Owen - Disabled (poem)
- Strange Meeting (poem)

• Samuel Becket - Waiting for Godot (absurd theatre)

- Endgame (drama)
- Happy Days (drama)
- Molly (drama)
- Krapp's Last Tape (drama)

• Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party (comedy of menace)

- The Caretaker (drama)

• John Osborne - Look Back in Anger (drama)

• William Butler Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium (poem)

(problems of the Irish) - Leda and The Swan (poem)

• Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Gönül Çelen) (drama)

- Arms and The Man (drama)

NOT: Bernard Shaw 1925'te Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü

‘Pygmalion’ ilk ve tek insan
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What is the correct chronological order of literary periods in English Literature?

CEVAP: The Medieval Period

The Renaissance
The Restoration
The Age of Reason
The Romantic Period
The Victorian Age
The Twentieth Century

The Age of Reason’ The Restoration’

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In _____________ _____________ wrote a savagely powerful novel depicting a the

government systematically destroys the human spirit. The author portrays a state in which the government
monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that even having a disloyal thought is against
the law.

Completes the given sentence.

CEVAP: Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell

‘dystopian novel’ George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1984) eseridir.