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What is a farce

A farce is a joke. It could mean an actual joke (knock, knock) or something that was bad. (Their soccer team is a "farce") Hope this helps :)

Romans were once referred to by what other name

Romans were also known as Etruscans.

What did troubadours do

Troubadours composed lyrics about the fights and deeds of a particular ruling family.

French scholars followed the lead of the Renaissance movement from what country

Italy

The Age of Reason was another name for which era

Enlightenment Age

The German and English language are both believed to be descended from which source

English and German are both Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, which was spoken around the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe.

English and German are the most widely spoken Germanic languages, with approximately 309-400 million and over 100 million native speakers respectively.

Along with other Indo-European languages, English and German ultimately evolved from the Proto-Indo-European languagewhich is the unattested, reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Which of these could characterize the romanticism movement

emotional expression and heightened imagination

What did many of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays explore

Mortality

Which of these was one of the great French literature successes of the Enlightenment

Encyclopedie

Which of these is one of the most important pieces of literature to come out of France during the Renaissance period

Gargantua and Pantagruel

What style of writing was common to German writers in the 1500s

brusque and coarse

Martin Luther disagreed with the Catholic church over the question of indulgences which led to what event

reformation

The authors of which period turned their interest to remote and faraway places such as the medieval period folklore and legends

The authors of the romantic period turned their interest to remote and faraway places such as the medieval period folklore and legends.

By what other name is the medieval period also known

The simple answer is that the medieval period is also called the Middle Ages.

There is some complexity, however. The period from the 5th through 10th centuries was called the Dark Ages, but the term Early Middle Ages is more common now. What used to be called the Middle Ages, a time from the 11th to 15th centuries, is now often counted as the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300) and Late Middle Ages (1300 to some time in the 15th century).

Which writer developed the archetype of the lone hero with qualities of passion

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

What people are most closely related to the Jacobean period of British literature

James the first

Which of these periods of British literature occured during the twentieth century was it romantic restoration or Edwardian

Edwardian

Was a pioneer of fantasy and horror genres

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm Hoffman

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