Early Modern English Period

When does the Early Modern English period roughly span?

• 12th to 15th centuries

• 15th to 17th centuries

• 5th to 10th centuries

• 18th to 19th centuries

The Early Modern English Period comes after the ......

• Old English Period

• Industrial Revolution

• Middle English Period

• Present Day English

What is the term for the system of land ownership and labor relationships that dominated Early Modern English society?

The most Influential Writer from EMnE was ...

• William Shakespeare

• the Venerable Bede

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Cædmon

This period witnessed cultural, political, and social changes, including the Renaissance.

• True

• False

The most noticeable aspect of the Great Vowel Shift was the change in the quality (the actual sound) of many ....

• consonants

• vowels

• fricatives

• stops

One theory which explains the GVS cause is that English changed due to the great influx of ............. loanwords.

• Dutch

• Greek

• African

• French

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of Early Modern English literature?

• Use of Latin as the primary language

• Influenced by the Renaissance

• Varied forms of poetry and drama

• Prominent playwrights and poets

What important English translation of the Bible was published during this period, influencing the language and religion

• The Latin Vulgate

• The Geneva Bible

• The Douay-Rheims Bible

• The King James Bible

The linguistic change that classifies EMnE as a new period is primarily ...

• morphological

• syntactic

• phonological

• lexical