Periode Schrijvers Verhalen Poetic devices
Old English Period Anonymous Beowulf > epic poems: a long Form; alliteration
500-1100 narrative poem about a single hero, Subject; war and death
who is first victorious but dies in the
end and becomes immortal, Caesura was a characteristic
manuscript: based on oral tradition
Middle English Period Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales > Form; end-rhyme and fixed
1100-1500 About life on earth and Link: respond to each story between syllable patterns
• Language saw changes to due described individuals = de different stories Subject; courtly love
to Norman domination characteristic Renaissance Frame: the pilgrimage to Canterbury Influenced by French due to
• Plays; in churches; helping on horseback Norman invasion
people understand Bible Reeve’s Tale
The Renaissance Willam Shakespeare; Macbeth • Run-on-lines = zin stopt
1500-1660 • Italian; abba abba cde cde op volgende regel verder
• Comedies; funny, because of • Spenserian; abab bcbc cdcd • Caesura = ! // . ? midden in
confusion and misunderstanding ee • Alliteration = same sound
• History; boring and gives a • English; abab cdcd efef gg • Assonance = klinker geluid
good picture of life and society
• Tragedy; main character dies Blank verse > poetry that does
due to flaw character not rhyme
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Victorian Age The Brontë Sisters > Oliver Twist
• Reform bills > child labour, pseudonyms; Currer, Ellis and
reduction of work hours, basic Acton Bell
education and the right to vote
Charles Dickens > irony,
instalments
Old English Period Anonymous Beowulf > epic poems: a long Form; alliteration
500-1100 narrative poem about a single hero, Subject; war and death
who is first victorious but dies in the
end and becomes immortal, Caesura was a characteristic
manuscript: based on oral tradition
Middle English Period Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales > Form; end-rhyme and fixed
1100-1500 About life on earth and Link: respond to each story between syllable patterns
• Language saw changes to due described individuals = de different stories Subject; courtly love
to Norman domination characteristic Renaissance Frame: the pilgrimage to Canterbury Influenced by French due to
• Plays; in churches; helping on horseback Norman invasion
people understand Bible Reeve’s Tale
The Renaissance Willam Shakespeare; Macbeth • Run-on-lines = zin stopt
1500-1660 • Italian; abba abba cde cde op volgende regel verder
• Comedies; funny, because of • Spenserian; abab bcbc cdcd • Caesura = ! // . ? midden in
confusion and misunderstanding ee • Alliteration = same sound
• History; boring and gives a • English; abab cdcd efef gg • Assonance = klinker geluid
good picture of life and society
• Tragedy; main character dies Blank verse > poetry that does
due to flaw character not rhyme
Open apron
Victorian Age The Brontë Sisters > Oliver Twist
• Reform bills > child labour, pseudonyms; Currer, Ellis and
reduction of work hours, basic Acton Bell
education and the right to vote
Charles Dickens > irony,
instalments
