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1 Old&MiddleEnglishLiterature

Ⅰ.EssayQuestions

Whatarethethreepartstoldinthestoryof Beowulf?HowisheroicidealreflectedinBeowulf?

State the social significance of William Langland’sPiers the Plowman and

commentonthepoem’swritingfeatures.

CompareChaucer’sTheCanterburyTaleswitholdEnglishpoetryandtheworksofotherMiddleEnglishpoetstoillustratethatChauceristhefirstrealisticwriterinEnglishliterature.

WhatisthefunctionoftheGeneralProloguetoTheCanterburyTales?

Ⅱ.Definethefollowingterms.

OldEnglishperiod(theAngloSaxonperiod)

Alliteration

Prose

Courtlylove

Moralityplay

Couplet

Meter

Foot

ScottishChaucerians

Ballad(Popularballad)

MiddleEnglishperiod

Anglo-Normanperiod

Arthurianlegend

Romance

Ⅲ.Filltheblanks.

TheOldEnglishpoetrycanbedividedintotwogroups:the poetryandthe

poetry.

isregardedasthe“FatherofEnglishSong”,thefirstknownreligiouspoetof

England.

ThehistoryofEnglishliteraturebeginsinthe century.

isthemostprevailingliteraryformintheMiddleAges.

Themostmagnificentproseworkofthe15thcenturyisMorted’Arthurconcerning

with legend.

Theonlyimportantprosewriterinthe15thcenturyisSir .

CriticstendtodivideChaucer’sliterarycareerintothreeperiods:the period,

the periodandthe period.

AmongtheMiddleEnglishpoets,threearethegreatest.Oneistheauthorof SirGawainandtheGreenKnight.Theothertwoare and .

TheCanterburyTalescontainsthe and24tales,twoofwhichleftunfinished.

Chauceremployedthe coupletinwritinghisgreatestworkTheCanterburyTales.

TheframeworkinTheCanterburyTalesisa .

WhenChaucerdiedonthe25thofOctober1400,hewasthefirsttobeburiedin

.

BesidesChaucer,KingJamesIalsowroteinversesofsevenlines,sothiskindofversecametobecalledthe

ComparedwithChaucer,“FatherofEnglishpoetry”, inthe14thcenturycanbecalled“Fat