Select the correct answer.

Which is a main reason for studying literary periods?

ОА.

to understand the context of a novel

OB.

to be able to categorize a novel you read

O c.

to understand a novel's style

OD

to be able to write in the style of the period

B. to be able to categorize a novel you read

Explanation:

Literary periods simply shows the spans of time whereby literature was written and it shares the intellectual, linguistic, religious, and artistic influences.

The reason for studying literary periods is to enable readers to be able to divide and categorize groups of authors and their works according to time, place, and to assign a name to each period.

Some of the literary periods are:

1. Renaissance Literature.

2. The Enlightenment.

3. Romanticism.

4. Transcendentalism.

5. Victorian Literature.

6. Realism.

7. Naturalism.

8. Modernism.