Fill in the gaps with the following words according to their definitions: Old English - Elizabethan Literature - Victorian Literature - Realism- Modernism
………………………….: It is a conscious break from the past and a search for new ways of expressing oneself. Started by the Industrial Revolution and fueled by urbanization, the movement originated in Europe, with Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Robert Musil. It was also heavily influenced by the horrors of World War I.
…………………..………: It encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles and others.
…………………………….:It is characterized by the expanding horizons of education and literacy, as well as by an increased desire of the people to question religion and politics. During this time period, publications such as Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859, served as catalysts for political and religious controversy.
………………………:Its emphasis is on detachment, objectivity and accurate observation. It focuses on social issues, struggles of everyday life, truths of everyday life, and focus on mostly middle- and lower-class people.
………………………...: A body of works probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature. It saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse), was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare).
………………………….: It is a conscious break from the past and a search for new ways of expressing oneself. Started by the Industrial Revolution and fueled by urbanization, the movement originated in Europe, with Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Robert Musil. It was also heavily influenced by the horrors of World War I.
…………………..………: It encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles and others.
…………………………….:It is characterized by the expanding horizons of education and literacy, as well as by an increased desire of the people to question religion and politics. During this time period, publications such as Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859, served as catalysts for political and religious controversy.
………………………:Its emphasis is on detachment, objectivity and accurate observation. It focuses on social issues, struggles of everyday life, truths of everyday life, and focus on mostly middle- and lower-class people.
………………………...: A body of works probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature. It saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse), was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare).
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