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The Anglo-Saxon Period




I. Fill in the blanks.



1.
After the fall of the Roman Empire and athe withdrawl of Roman troops from Albion
，

the aboriginal __ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquerered and almost
totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of ____
，

_____
，

and _____ who came from the
continent and settled in the island
，

naming its central part a
，

or England.


nearly ______ years prior to the coming of the English
，

British had been a Roman
province. In _____
，

the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against
swarms of Teutonic invaders.


literature of early period falls naturally into teo divisions
，


and ____.

The
former represents the poetry which ____the

Anglso-Saxons probably brought with them
in the form of _____
，

the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on
English soil
；

the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of ______ .


4._____can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _____
---one of the
national heros of the English people.


Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ______ approximately at
the beginning of the_____century
，

when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern
part of the _____ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes
，

e.g. with the ______
who lived on the other side of the straits.


the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention______ who lived in the latter half
of the ______ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphase of the Blible.


7.____ is the first known religious poets of England. He is known as the father of English
song.


didactic poem “The Christ” was produced by ________.



II. Choose the best answer for each blank.



9.
The most important work of _______ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
，

which is regarded
as the best monument of the old English prose.


a. Alfred the Great







b. Caedmon


c. Cynewulf









d. Venerable Bede


2. Who is the monster half- huamn who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of
Beowulf
？



a. Hrothgat.







b. Heorot.


c. Grendel.








d. Beowulf.


3. _____ is the first important religious poet in English Literature.



a. Cynewulf








b.

Caedmon



c. Shakepeare.







d. Adam Bede


4. The epic
，

The Song of Beowulf
，

represents the spirit of ______.



a. monks







b. romanticists



c. sentimentalist




d. pagan


III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your
answers in the brackets.



1.
（


）

The author of The Song of Beowulf is Cynewulf.


2.
（


）

The setting of The Song of Beowulf is in Scotland.


3.
（


）

Alfred the Great compiles The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.


4.
（


）

Venerable Bede wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.


5.
（


）

The author of Paraphase is Caedmon.


IV. Define the liretary terms listed below.



Alliteration

Epic.


V. Answer the following questions.



do you know about the Teutors.


give a brief description of The Song of Boewulf.
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The Anglo-Norman Period




I.
Fill in the following blanks.



1.
In the year___
，

at the battle of ___
，

the ____ headed by William
，

Duke of
Normandy
，

defeated the Anglo- Saxons.


literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright
，

____
tales of _______ and _______
，

in marked contrast with the ___ and ______ of Anglo-Saxon
poetry.


h literature is also a combination of ____and _____ elements.


the 14
th
century
，

the two most important writers are ___ and Chaucer.


the 15
th
century
，

there is only one important prose writer whose name is _____. He
wrote an important work called Morte d’ Arthur.



II. Define the leterature terms listed below.



1.
Canto





ian Legend.


III. Read the excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight carefully
，

and then
make a brief comment on it.



IV. Answer the following questions.



1.
What is the consequence of the Norman Conquest
？



a brief survey of the middle English literature.
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Geoffrey Chaucer



I. Fill in the following blanks.



1.
Chaucer’s masterpiece is _____
，

one of the most famous works in all literature.


r created in The Canterbury Tales a strikingly brilliant and picturesque
panorama of _______.


are various kinds of ballads _______
，

______
，

______
，

_____
，

and ______.


____ was among the first to take a literary interest in ballads.
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name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales is ______
，

who proposes
that each pilgrim of the ____ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on
the way back.


contradistinction to the ______ verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry
，

Chaucer chose the
metrical form which laid the foundation of the English _____ verse.


II. Choose the best answer.



1.
Who is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of
England
？



a. Christopher Marlow





b. Geoffrey Chaucer


c. W. Shakespeare






d. Alfred the Great


2. Chaucer’s earlist work of any length is his “______” a translation of the French “Roman
de la Rose” by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung
，

which was a love allegory enjoying
widespread popularity in the 13
th
and 14
th
centuries not only in France but throught Europe.


a. Troilus and Criseyde





b. A Red
，

Red Rose


c. Romance of the Rose





d. Piers the Plowman


3. In his literary development
，

Chaucer was influenced by three literatures
，

which one
is not true
？



a. French literature.





b. Italian literature


c. English literature





d. American literature


III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your
answers in the brackets.



1.
（


）

The 32 pilgrims
，

according to Chaucer’s plan
，

was to exceed that of Baccoccio’s
Decameron.


2.
（


）

The Prologue is a splendid masterpiece of Romantic portray
，

the first of its kind
in the history of English literature.


3.
（


）

The Canterbury Tales is a vivid and brilliant reflection of 15
th
century in England.


4.
（


）

Chaucer’s poetry traces out a path to the literature of English Renaissance.



IV. Define the leterary terms listed below.



1.
Romance.


.





V. Anwer the following question.


is the social significance of The Canterbury Tales
？

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The Renaissance




I. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase
according to the textbook.



1.
Shakespeare’s first priginal play written in about 1590 was _________.




，

Othello
，

King Lear
，

and _______ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s
four great tragedies.


Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of _______’s best known sonnets.



te monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ______.


’s works may be divided into three classes
，

the ______
，

the _______
，

the
_______ works.


er with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English
national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as the
_________.


Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _______.


II. Find out the author and his works.



⑴

The author and their works


1.
（


）

Thomas More




a. Gorge Green


2.
（


）

Enmund Spenser




b. Eupheus


3.
（


）

John Lyly






Fairy Queen


4.
（


）

Marlowe







d. Utopia


5.
（


）

Robert Greene





e. The Jew of Malta


⑵

The characters in the play


1.
（


）

Desdemona





a. The Merchant of Venice


2.
（


）

Cordelia






b. As you like it
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3.
（


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Juliet










4.
（


）

Ophelia







d. King Lear


5.
（


）

Portia






e. Othello


6.
（


）

Rosalind






f. Romeo and Juliet


III. Define the leterary terms listed below.



1.
Renaissance





rian Stanza


sm


ic irony


y


on


IV. Answer the following questions.



1.
Give a summary about the English literature during the Renaissance period.


is the main idea of Hamlet
？



a brief introduction to Thomas More’s Utopia.




en were Shakespeare’s main tragedies written
？

what did he write about in his
tragedies
？

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Chapter Five The Period of Revolution and Restoration




I. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase
according to th etextbook.



1.
The 17
th
century was a period when ______ impeded the further development of
capitalism in England and the ______ could no longer bear the sway of _______.


d became a commomwealth under the leadership of _______.


Glorious Revolution in _____ meant three things the supremacy of ________
，

the
beginning of _______
，

and the final truiumph of the principle of _______.


ation created a literature of its own
，

that was often ______ and _______
，

but
on the whole _______ and _______.


first thing to strik
e the reader is Donne’s extraordinary _____ and penetrating
_______. The next is the ______ which marks certain of the lighter poems and which
represents a conscious reation from the extreme _______ of woman encouraged by the
Petrachan tradition.



ise Lost presents the author’s view in an ______
，

_______ form. It is based on
the _______legend of the imaginary progenitors of the human race-______
，

and _______
，

and involves God and his eternal adversary _____in its plot.


’s most important wo
rk is _________
，

written in the old- fashioned
，

medieval
form of ________ and _________.


ia has two objects
，

---to get rid of his ______
，

which holds the sins and fears
of his life
，

and to make his way.


II. Find out the work from column A and its content from column B.



1.
（


）

II Penseroso




a. defense of the Revolution


2.
（


）

Lycidas






b. Satan against God


3.
（


）

Comas







c. about dear friend


4.
（


）

Areopagitica




d. happiness


5.
（


）

Eikonolastes




e. meditation


6.
（


）

Defense for the English People

f. masque


7.
（


）

Paradise Lost




g. attack on the censorship


8.
（


）

L’Allegro






h. justifying the excution


III.

Define the leterature terms listed below.



1 .
Blank Verse


2. Three Unities


3. Conceit


4. Stanza


5. Elegy


6 .Allegory


7. Genre