1) Literary theory does not addresses questions of what makes literary language literary, as well as the structures of literary language and literary texts, and how these work. a) Fact b) Bluff 2) Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers such as Gorgias,Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles. a) Fact b) Bluff 3) In the Early Tudor Period the War of the Roses ends in England with Henry Tudor (Henry VII) claiming the throne. Martin Luther's split with Rome marks the emergence of Protestantism, followed by Henry VIII's Anglican schism, which creates the first Protestant church in England. Edmund Spenser is a sample poet. a) Fact b) Bluff 4) Queen Elizabeth II saves England from both Spanish invasion and internal squabbles at home. Her reign is marked by the early works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kydd, and Sidney. a) Fact b) Bluff 5) The Middle English Period takes place in the late 15th, 16th, and early 17th century in Britain, but somewhat earlier in Italy and the southern Europe, somewhat later in northern Europe. a) Fact b) Bluff 6) The Symbolist Movement was a late 19th century art movement which greatly influenced literature, the visual arts, music, and theatre.  a) Fact b) Bluff 7) The poem "Beowulf" was made under the Patristic Period. a) Fact b) Bluff 8) The Neoclassical period is marked by the rise of Deism, intellectual backlash against earlier Puritanism, and America's revolution against England. a) Fact b) Bluff 9) The Formalist approach and New Criticism regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”  a) Fact b) Bluff 10) Simone de Beauvoir wrote "The Feminine Mystique." a) Fact b) Bluff 11) The Augustan Age (c. 1700-1750), marked by the imitation of Virgil and Horace's literature in English letters. The principal English writers include Addison, Steele, Swift, and Alexander Pope. Abroad, Voltaire is the dominant French writer. a) Fact b) Bluff 12) Jane Austen is categorized with the male Romantic poets. a) Fact b) Bluff 13) Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation. a) Fact b) Bluff 14) The Old English Period so-called "Dark Ages" (455 CE -799 CE) occur when Rome falls and barbarian tribes move into Europe. a) Fact b) Bluff 15) Intentional Fallacy is where the critic or the reader makes the mistake of not separating a work from any intention the author might have had for the work.  a) Fact b) Bluff

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