Match game

1901

Sully Prudhomme

1902

Christan Mommsen

1903

Biørnstjerne Martinus

1904

Fredric mistral and Jose Eizaguirre

1905

Henrik Sienkiewicz

1906

Giosue carducci

1907

Rudyard Kipling

1908

Rudolf Eucken

1909

Selma Lagerlof

1910

Paul heyse

1911

Count Maurice Maeterlinck

1912

Gerhart Hauptmann

1913

Rabindranath Tagore

1914

NO

1915

Romain Rolland

1916

Carl Heidenstam

1917

Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan

1918

NO

1919

Carl Spitteler

1920

Knut Hamsun

1921

Anatole France

1922

Jacinto Benavente

1923

William Yeats

1924

Wladyslaw Reymont

1925

George Shaw

1926

Grazing Deledda

1927

Henri Bergson

1928

Sigred Undset

1929

Thomas Mann

1930

Sinclair Lewis

1931

Erik Karlfeldt

1932

John Galsworthy

1933

Ivan Bunin

427-1000

Old English

1100-1350

Anglo Norman

1350-1500

Middle English

1500-1557

Early Tudor Period

1557-1606

Elizabethan

1603-1625

Jacobean

1625-1649

Caroline

1649-1670

Commonwealth

1660-1700

Restoration

1700-1750

Agusten Age

1750-1798

Age of Johnson

1798-1832

Romantic Period

1832-1870

Early Victorian Period

1870-1901

Late Victorian Period

1901-1914

Edwardian Age

1914-1940

Modern Period

1965-Now

Post Modern

Wordsworth and Coolidge

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lyrical Ballads

Keats

Ode to a nightingale, To Autumn, ode on a Grecian urn

Jane Austen

Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Mary Shelley

The Lost Man, Mathilda, Frankenstein

Dickens

A Christmas Carol, David Copper-field, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist

George Elliot

Scenes of a Clerical Life, Middle March, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner

Bronte

Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor

Charles Darwin

Origin of Species

Ruyard Kipling

Jungle Book, White Mans Burden, Rikki Tikki Tavi

Ibsen

Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, A Dolls House

Stevenson

Treasure Island, Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

Oscar Wilde

The importance of being earnest, Lady Windermeres Fan, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hardy

Far from the Maddening Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure

Scop

Anglo saxton court poet

Skald

Scandinavian poet (Viking period)

Gotterdammerung

Twilight of the gods in English, the word is us describe a massive collapse and destruction with great violence and disorder

Dactyl

One accented syllable two unaccented

Spondee

Two accented syllables

Anapest

Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one.

Trochee

an accented and unaccented syllable

Portmanteau

Words combined together ex: smoke, fog- Smog: breakfast, lunch- brunch

Lost generation

A term applied to the American writers, most of whom were born around 1900, who fought in the First World War. Many lived in Paris.

Beat generation

A term applied to a group of American poets and novelists of the 1950s and 1960s who were in rebellion against the culture and the value systems of present-day America and expressed their revolt through literary works of the loose structure and slang diction asserting the essentially valueless nature of existence

New York School

A group of poets 1950-1970 characterized by urbanity. wit, learning, spontaneity, and exuberance

Fugitives

A group associated with Vanderbilt university in the 1920s

Angry young man

A group of British writers in the 1950s and 1960s who demonstrated a particular bitterness in their attacks on outmoded values.

Koine

A local dialect that becomes the official language of a larger area.

Metonymy

Describing something by listing similarly associated things. Ex: “the crown for monarch”

Epanalepsis

is the repetition of the initial part of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence.

Chiasmus

a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

Tautology

repeats an idea without adding force or clarity: ex wholly devoid

Omnibus

An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.

Nihil obstat

“Nothing stands in the way” Roman Catholic Church. permission to publish a book, granted by an official censor who, upon examining it, has certified that it contains nothing contrary to faith or morals.

Trabadour

Singing about courtly love

Canto

Cantos are sections that provide breaks in an epic or long narrative poem, essentially serving as the function of chapters in novels rather than stanzas found in other forms of poetry. (Mostly likely were sung)

Trouvere

Poets of courtly love

Epitgone

an undistinguished imitator, follower, or successor of an important writer, painter, etc.

Epitomes

person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.

Dead metaphors

A figure of speech used so long, that is taken in it’s denotative (not literal) meaning only.

Stoicism

Endurance and self-sufficiency. Conformity to the laws of nature

Hedonism

the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life.

Ploce

ploce is a figure of speech in which a word is separated or repeated with a delay in order to emphasize a statement.

Refrain

In a poem or song, a it is a line or group of lines that regularly repeat, usually at the end of a stanza in a poem or at the end of a verse in a song. In a speech or other prose writing, it can refer to any phrase that repeats a number of times within the text.

Syncope

Deleting letters in the middle of a word Usually to make the word shorter often done in Latin.

Apocope

Shortening of a word (ex bod for body) but not just a deleting of letters.

repetend

A word, phrase, or line that recurs in a poem. As distinct from a refrain, a repetend is repeated only partially or only at irregular intervals.

Aphaeresis

Omission of an unstressed syllable at the beginning of a word. Ex: mid for amid , neath for beneath

Apophasis

The mention of an issue by claiming to not raise it.

Aposiopesis

The intentional failure to complete a sentence. Ex “if you do that why I’ll——-“

paragoge

the addition of a sound or syllable to the end of a word either inorganically (as in against) or to give emphasis or modify the meaning (as in Hebrew)

Examples are len-d, amongs-t, agains-t, whils-t, tyran-t.