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WorksheetsOverview history of English literature
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is an epic?
folk song
traditional song
A long narrative song
national song
“The Song of Beowulf” - the earliest literature, the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon
True
False
Alliteration is the occurrence of different letters or sounds at the end of adjacent or closely connected words.
True
False
What three languages were spoken in England in the 11th -13th centuries?
Celt, German, French
Latin -French -The Anglo-Saxon
English, Latin, Celt
What is a fabliau?
Funny stories about town people
a long composition sometimes in verse,sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero
the stories in which the main characters are animal
What was the progressive ideology of the Renaissance?
Humanism
Romanticism
Critical Realism
Who was the representative of the first period of English humanist literature?
Francis Bacon
Christopher
Thomas More
What decadent trends manifested in the late 19th century?
laconic, symbolism, futurism, and impressionism
symbolism, romanticism, imagism, futurism
symbolism, impressionism, images, futurism, and others
Who is the most representative of Decadence?
John Galsworthy
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
Romanticism is not the bringfulness of feeling, imagination, and passion.
True
False
Who were the founders of critical realism and social novels in England?
Charles Dickens and Osca Wilde
William M. Thackeray and working class
Charles Dickens , William M.Thackeray
What problems did Critical Realism Poet and novel write about?
the conflict of the epoch
the beautiful in soul
the way out of the social contradictions
