Recap & Ready: European Literary Periods

The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, is the greatest innovation of this era.

• Ancient Period

• Medieval Period

• Renaissance Period

• Romanticism

Literature created during this period was mostly influenced by Greco-Roman culture, which became the basis for the Western literature that we know today.

• Ancient Period

• Medieval Period

• Renaissance Period

• Romanticism

What period is also considered the "Dark Ages" because of the decline in cultural and intellectual activity following the fall of the Roman Empire?

• Ancient Period

• Medieval Period

• Renaissance Period

• Romanticism

While romanticism beautifies the ugly, it presents the truth with all its flaws.

It strives to present things as accurate and with the least subjectivity as possible.

• Modernism

• Postmodernism

• Realism

• Romanticism

This period was marked by sudden changes in man’s perspective of the world.

This is when the First World War caused the formation of a new literary movement.

• Modernism

• Postmodernism

• Realism

• Romanticism