Practice sets organised by literary period, from Old English through to the contemporary.
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- Periods of English Literature: the chronological framework — 25 questions. Start here: the whole timeline and its dates.
- History of English Literature: ages, authors and events — 20 questions across the full sweep.
- The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period — 25 questions, from the Germanic invasion to 1066.
- The Middle English Period — 25 questions, 1066 to 1500.
- The Renaissance, Set 1: Introduction and Foundations — 25 questions.
- The Renaissance, Set 2: Meaning, Humanism and Characteristics — 25 questions.
- The Renaissance, Set 3: Reformation, Humanism and the Elizabethan Age — 50 questions.
- The Renaissance Age: Consolidated Question Bank — 92 questions drawing the Renaissance sets together for revision.
- The Jacobean Age (1603–1625) — 50 questions on revenge tragedy, city comedy, Webster and Middleton.
- 17th Century Metaphysical Poetry — 25 questions on Donne, the conceit and the metaphysical school.
- The Neo-Classical Age (1660–1798) — 50 questions on the Restoration, the Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson.
- The Romantic Age (1798–1832) — 50 questions on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
- The Victorian Age (1837–1901) — 50 questions on faith and doubt, Tennyson, Browning and the novelists.
- The Modern Age (1901–1945) — 50 questions on modernism, the war poets, Eliot, Yeats, Joyce and Woolf.
- Postmodernism (1945–present) — 50 questions on theory, metafiction and contemporary fiction.
- Macbeth: Act 1 — 50 questions, close textual study.
- Macbeth: Act 2 — 50 questions, close textual study.
- Macbeth: Act 3 — 50 questions, close textual study.
- Macbeth: Act 4 — 50 questions, close textual study.
- Macbeth: Act 5 — 50 questions, close textual study.
- Macbeth: Comprehensive Revision — 50 questions across the whole play.
- Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 — 50 questions, close textual study of “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”.
- Donne: The Sun Rising — 50 questions, close textual study of the aubade and its conceits.
- Keats: Ode to a Nightingale — 80 questions, close textual study of the 1819 ode.
- Keats: A Thing of Beauty — 100 questions on the opening of Endymion, Book I.
- Neruda: Keeping Quiet — 100 questions, close textual study of the poem on silence and peace.
- Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion — 57 questions, close textual study of the poem.
- Kolatkar: The Bus — 100 questions on the opening poem of Jejuri.
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