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Overview history of English literature

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an epic?

a)

folk song

b)

traditional song

c)

A long narrative song

d)

national song

2.

“The Song of Beowulf” - the earliest literature, the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Alliteration is the occurrence of different letters or sounds at the end of adjacent or closely connected words.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What three languages were spoken in England in the 11th -13th centuries?

a)

Celt, German, French

b)

Latin -French -The Anglo-Saxon

c)

English, Latin, Celt

5.

What is a fabliau?

a)

Funny stories about town people

b)

a long composition sometimes in verse,sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero

c)

the stories in which the main characters are animal

6.

What was the progressive ideology of the Renaissance?

a)

Humanism

b)

Romanticism

c)

Critical Realism

7.

Who was the representative of the first period of English humanist literature?

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Christopher

c)

Thomas More

8.

What decadent trends manifested in the late 19th century?

a)

laconic, symbolism, futurism, and impressionism

b)

symbolism, romanticism, imagism, futurism

c)

symbolism, impressionism, images, futurism, and others

9.

Who is the most representative of Decadence?

a)

John Galsworthy

b)

Oscar Wilde

c)

William Wordsworth

10.

Romanticism is not the bringfulness of feeling, imagination, and passion.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Who were the founders of critical realism and social novels in England?

a)

Charles Dickens and Osca Wilde

b)

William M. Thackeray and working class

c)

Charles Dickens , William M.Thackeray

12.

What problems did Critical Realism Poet and novel write about?

a)

the conflict of the epoch

b)

the beautiful in soul

c)

the way out of the social contradictions