BRITISH LITERATURE

Reorder the following:

• the students'

• enrichment.

• Literature

• contributes to

• cultural

Literature also provides personal involvement opportunities, as the student becomes enthusiastic to find out what happens as events unfold via the climax; they feel closer to certain characters and share their emotional responses.

• True

• False

When talking about British Literature, the pieces of writing created in Ireland, English, Wales, and Scotland make the compendium of it. Locate the countries in the map.

British Literature is better understood by the historical periods it went through, and the authors who gained more importance. Match the following:

• William Shakespeare

• The Romantic Era

• J.K. Rowling

• Current Voices

• Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Modernist Movement

• Virginia Woolf

• The Victorian Era

• Jane Austen

• The Elizabethan Era

Known for the beginnings of the English language and very little written material. One of the main poems of the time is Beowulf.

• The Modernist Movement

• Elizabethan Era

• Victorian Era

• Old English

Known as the most famous and definitive period for poetry. Less about story

and more about emotion. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice are examples of the time.

• Current voices

• Elizabethan Era

• Romantic Era

• The Modernist Movement

Author of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, among others; from the Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution.

• Charles Dickens

• Lewis Carroll

• Bram Stoker

• Robert Louis Stevenson

Complete the quote by C.S. Lewis from the Contemporary English Literature or the 20th. Century: “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too _______ to buy.”

Complete: Beowulf is a heroic journey to __________.

Now match the following:

• warrior

• Atheling

• king

• Grendel

• monster

• Beowulf

• place

• Heorot

• prince

• Hrothgar