Quizzes

Five questions on the specific works and authors literary scholarship credits with founding Gothic fiction, detective fiction, science fiction and the Bildungsroman, plus the English sonnet's own origin.

Five questions on this wave's own research into world genres and forms: Arabic maqama, the Spanish picaresque, the Persian rubaiyat, Italian ottava rima and Japanese renga.

Four questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson, his Concord circle and the Transcendentalist movement, drawn from this wave's own research.

Four questions on how this atlas classifies literature: by what a work is, by when and among whom it was written, and by what shape it takes on the page.

Five questions on the origins of literary genres, movements and forms, drawn from this wave's own depth research.

Five questions on the genres and works this wave added: satire, chivalric romance, and the authors and novels that answered them.

Five questions on where literature's genres, movements and forms actually began, and where scholars still disagree.

Five questions on the fixed and free forms this wave added to the atlas: the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina, the ghazal and blank verse.