English Literature

Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

• Boer War

• 2nd World War

• Korean War

• First World War

Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

• Betjeman

• Hughes

• Marvel

• Larkin

The most famous work of literature in Old English is .......

• Romeo & Juliet

• The English Bible

• The Canterbury Tales

• The song of Beowulf

Before the Germanic tribe invasions, the inhabitants of Britain spoke a ....... language.

• modern

• Celtic

• Bostonian

• local

The highlighted letter in the photo is an example of a language device.

• alliteration

• tragic hero

• kenning

• caesura

The version of English that was spoken between 450 and 1100 AD was .......

• modern English

• Old English

• futuristic English

• Late Modern English

What type of French was spoken in England?

• Anglo-Norman

• Norman

• Latin

• Anglo-Normand

Through the book The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred promoted the use of written .....

• Latin

• Celtic

• Old English

• Danish

The Germanic tribes, the ......., the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded Great Britain.

• Angles

• Triangles

• Americans

• French

"England" and "English" come from the name of the tribe of .......

• the Cherokee

• the Angles

• the Saxons

• the Jutes