Context Exam

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Medieval Period

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428-1500

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Renaissance/Early Modern Period

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1500-1650

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Long 18th Century Period

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1660-1798

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American Literature to the Civil War Period

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1620-1865

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American Literature to the Civil War Subperiods

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Colonial, Revolutionary/ Early Republic, American Romanticism

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British Romanticism Period

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1798-1832

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British Victorian Period

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1832-1901

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American Post-Civil War Period

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1865-1914

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Transatlantic Modernism Period

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1914-1939

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Contemporary/Post-Modern Period

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1945-present

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Norman Conquest?

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Medieval

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Caxton's Printing Press? When and period.

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1476 and Medieval

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Act of Supremacy?

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Renaissance

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Puritans to New World? When and period

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1620 and American Literature to the Civil War

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English Civil War & Protectorate?

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Renaissance

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The Restoration?

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Long 18th

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French Revolution? When and period

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1789 and Long 18th

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Industrialism?

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Romanticism

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First Reform Bill?

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Victorian

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American Civil War?

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American Literature to the Civil War

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Reconstruction?

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American Post-Civil War

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World War I?

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Modern

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World War 2?

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Contemporary

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Partition of India?

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Contemporary

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William the Conqueror

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Medieval

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Richard II

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Medieval

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Henry VIII

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Renaissance

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Elizabeth I

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Renaissance

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Charles I

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Renaissance

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Charles II

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Long 18th

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William and Mary

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Long 18th

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George III

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Long 18th

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George Washngton

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American Literature to the Civil War

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Victoria

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Victorian

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Abraham Lincoln

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American Literature to the Civil War

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George V

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Modern

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Woodrow Wilson

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Modern

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Modern

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Note the development of the English language from Old English through Middle English to Modern English, correctly identifying which literary periods contain which form(s) of the language

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Can you do it?

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4 authors from Medieval Period

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Marie de France, Chaucer, Beowulf Poet, William Langland

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4 authors from Renaissance Period

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Shakespeare, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton

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4 authors from Long 18th Century

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Alexander Pope, Johnathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Pepys

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4 authors from American Literature to Civil War

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Mary Rowlandson, Edgar Alan Poe, Anne Bradstreet, Johnathan Edwards

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4 authors from British Romanticism

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Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron

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4 authors from British Victorian

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Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Anne Bronte

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4 authors from American Post-Civil War

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Mark Twain, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

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4 authors from Transatlantic Modernism

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T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway

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4 authors from Contemporary/ Post-modern

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John Barth, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Paul Auster

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from Medieval Period

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Crowning of Charlemagne. The Crusades begin

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from Renaissance Period

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Martin Luther is excommunicated. Zwingli begins Reformation in Switzerland.

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from Long 18th Century

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Great plague of London. French Revolution

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from American Literature to Civil War

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The Boston Massacre. The Boston Tea Party.

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from American Post Civil War

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Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from British Romanticism

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Napoleon is crowned. Ludwig van Beethoven is born!

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from British Victorian

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Slavery abolished in British Empire. Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light.

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from Transatlantic Modernism

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Hitler appointed German chancellor. Amelia Earhart to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Name 2-3 important historical/cultural events from Contemporary/ Post-modern

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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Gandhi was assassinated.

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understand the development of circulation

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Oral, manuscripts, drama, printing, periodicals, magazines, novels.

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understand the development/evolution of genre

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Religious poetry and epics, drama, restoration comedy, poetry and novels, origin tales and travel narratives, a focus on difficulty, genre schmenre.

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understand the development of aesthetics

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Bible as a text, non-mimetic, glorifies childhood and the folk, Puritan of "art" images, Romanticism vs Realism, "Language is unstable."

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Discuss the difference between a mimetic view of literature and a Romantic/post-Romantic view of literature

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Mimesis = Outlined in Aristotle's Poetics. "Art must imitate nature. Art becomes a sort of mirror. Therefore, the skill of the poet lies in choosing the way to arrange subject, not originality. The romantics oppose this, and it is not used ever since.

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Outline the principles of close reading

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A reliance on the text. Attention to form, including rhythm, meter. Attention to images, tropes.